A quandary, a challenge and a rhetorical question

It's 22:28 on Thursday 1st March and today is the day of the first proper The World Today blog posting (the introduction and Skippy's Word of the Week don't count, because I say so). I intend to use this blog, as was said in the aforementioned introduction, to chronicle all those weird little thoughts that come to me in the wee small hours of the morning and which are hastily and illegibly scrawled on a Post-it note or typed into my Pocket PC, after the backlight stops blinding me. It's a pain, but I have to note them down, lest I forget them afore the morrow. Also, I might slip into archaic English every now and again. It's just something that I do.

It's now 23:05 and I still have no idea what the topic of this post is. I guess it's easy to say “I'm gonna write a blog” but a lot harder to actually write individual articles, on individual topics. I'll often say I'm going to do something and then not do it, particularly if it's something that I need to devote a lot of time to over the long term, so I'm challenging myself.

Alasdair Corbett, I challenge you to update this blog, once a day, every day with a new post!
I accept.
Very well, please sign here, here and here. Now, click to accept this license agreement. Would you like to register your challenge?
Um, okay.
*challenge.exe is trying to access the interweb. Allow it to do so?*
Yeah, I asked it to.
Please fill in the following form so that we can mail you spam and register your challenge:

I don't know where that came from.

Anyway, to reiterate (because “reiterating” sounds so much cooler than “repeating”) what was said in yesterday's About post, this is not a blog about a nice, specific topic. If you search for “video games” or “politics” or “obscure 1970s television show trivia” my name will not come up. I'd be happy if my name came up on a Google search for my name. Actually, wait a moment. Okay, I'm back. My name does come up on a Google search. It's after some guy's Bebo page and it assumes I've spelt it wrong but it's there. I'm happy now.

And so I leave you with a rhetorical question. Have you ever been really cynical about something then been proven wrong and felt slightly better about the world? Anyone with a Wii should know that a recent poll in the Everybody Votes channel (if you don't own a Wii, I'm not explaining what a “channel” is) asked what people felt was more important, love or money. Since I'm a soft-hearted cynic who has neither, I went with love but predicted money to win. When the results came in it was 77.4% for love, 22.6% for money and I felt a whole lot better about just over three quarters of the human race. The rest are bastards.



Image: This is what I do in Computing when I'm supposed to be saving vector images a dozen times over.