BLOGGING.......WHY?????????

so why does a person initiate blogging????

Want to show your literary side?
Is it to vent out your frustration (anger, sorrow)?
Is it because you had great ideas but some how never expressed them and its only now that you are interested in making them public?
Not a big fan of writing in a diary? :)
Never got them into a magazine or book and found an easy forum (damn those editors)?
Joining the bandwagon?
Or is it just for the heck of it? (vellapanti)

I am curious about the answers i might get but its true that its a combination of all these reasons for a motley group of people who blog. Its a great medium for anyone and everyone to express their thoughts, actions, opinions, etc and get comments from friends and other sundry people who visit their blog. I myself never thought that I had so many opinions on world affairs which I could pen down.

And I also believe that it truly brings out the best in some (worst in few who express too many negative thoughts, opinions, blah blah blah).

For example i recently realized that a friend of mine is a real good poet. Now i could not have noticed this as she lives far away and i had no access to her diary :). But another friend of mine just writes to show the world how good his english is. If you ever happen to come across his penmanship all you will notice is, words from GRE's high frequency word list and little content.

Anyways creativity is the best form of expression of thoughts and encouragement is what only one needs to get to start his own blog. So next time if any friend of yours asks you to post a comment on his first blog do motivate him (however pathetic it is) as he might just be on the verge of unveiling his literary genius.

GOOG'S CHROME- Review

have been using Google's new Chrome web browser for the past couple of days... its pretty good since they have combined the address and search boxes to let people search for information and websites by entering keywords into the same bar.. maybe the luks are better... speed is also somewhat faster although i am not sure... its consuming almost same amount of ram as Mozilla's Firefox and Internet Explorer. I could not scrutinize the security features but my guess is that its pretty safe. one thing more which my friend made me notice is that in Chrome if a web page hangs then u only have to close that page and the web browser still functions. that is not the case in others like IE and firefox. there you have to close the entire browser and then restart again.
I also feel that it's somehow very streamlined and simple to use.

Right now its an open source project and developers will be allowed to build new features for the browser. It is available for download in almost 100 countries. Although initially it is working only on computers which have Windows as their operating system but versions for MAC and LINUX operating systems are being developed.

Let's see what happens in the race for the world's best web browser. Chrome is entering a very challenging and competitive market which Microsoft has dominated for years with its Internet Explorer (72%). Second in the race is Firefox with around 20% share.

P.S. : My laptop being very old, the ram is very less (768 MB). Also my internet connection speed is just 256 kbps. So i might have missed a few tricks of GOOG.