a post for the ages.....or not?

So here I go. I am entering a new frontier in the internet. With the production line of Australian Idol clanging quietly on the TV in the background, and my partner reclining on the couch immersed in the intrigue of Harry Potter and the half blood prince, I find myself tapping away on my first ever blog post. Despite surfing the net since the age of 16, I never thought about reading (let alone writing) blogs. I guess I have been ignorant of the whole blog thing, not getting into myspace or facebook or whatever. However, in recent times, the planets have aligned to have me exploring new frontiers of the internet like a pioneer striving for gold. After wasting away on wikis, finding fun on forums, getting hooked on ebay, and spending weeks looking at new and different websites, I thought I had seen it all. 10 years of wasting time on the net - I have seen it all. The internet is dead. There is nothing new out there. If you’ve seen one website you have seen them all. Forget it.

But then I discovered “blogging”. I said to myself “why can’t I do that”, and set about checking out all sorts of blogs about the place. I have opinions. I have thoughts. I have things to talk about. I have a bit of spare time. I have opinions. I am net savvy. So why not have a blog.

After meandering through some of the interesting blogs out there, I figure that it might be a bit of fun to have one for myself. It doesn’t cost anything, I don’t have to live up to any standard, I can do it for a bit of fun. I have a few hobbies that lend themselves to discussion and commentary, and I don’t always like hearing what others write, so why shouldn’t I write it myself? This can be an outlet for the little bits of creativity that the world has not yet ground out of me.

Also, I have a lot of ideas and do a lot of things that I lose track of. I want to keep track of movies I have seen, or music I have heard, things I have done, cards that I have and those that I want. I guess you could call it a diary of sorts, but I would prefer to think of it as a record of stuff, things and ideas.

So here it is, I present me (and you) with THIN MAN’S HAT, a place to write about tv, sport, baseball cards, movies, books, and anything that sparks my interest. Who knows, I might even write the odd political piece! Gasp. Thanks for checking it out. Drop me an email at thinmanshat@gmail.com.