For quite some time I was vehemently opposed to the whole current idea of blogging. When "Blog" meant "web log" I could see what the purpose was, because people logging what they have had found on the Internet and commenting on it is useful. It saved people time by directing them to the most relevant and/or interesting thing they were looking for. Now most blogs are little more than an open diary, a forum for many people to make statements and ramble on about things that most people other than themselves would usually care less about. This would be OK and would have fizzled and died long ago if not for the average blog reader. This individual is often reading more for the cheap thrill of getting clues to some stranger's private life than to gain anything useful from the exercise. So, I swore I would never write one of these things. But here I am, writing. And here you are, reading. It looks as though I have already insulted us both. What a way to start a relationship.

So Hi, I'm Ryan. Every now and then I'll use this to let you know what I'm up to, if I can get over my abhorrence towards this damn thing.