Your reasons for "why blog" will be printed out on a DYMO label and stuck on my monitor. I'd stick it on my forehead, but then I'd have to print it backwards and mount a mirror on the wall over the keyboard.

Mind you, I started out almost 10 years ago on AOL myself. We were all "loosers" then, and we're all still "loosers." Heh.

Though I still use some AOL products now, I chose MT to blog partly because it seemed both challenging enough to keep the riff-raff out (Web-TV users: the new AOLers) and aesthetically pleasing for everyone else. I might have paid the nominal fee for "MT setup for the technically inept", but luckily I have an in-house geek. He found MT so interesting and satisfying to work with that he started his own blog.

I got to your main page via an archive post I found both helpful and amusing as an AOL/MTer; it was from 6/24/2002. You had just begun using MT for your blog, liked it, and also got in a good smack against those grubby AOL proles.

Against such courteous and elegant reasoning as yours, sir, "no can defense."

Although, when AOL starts their threatened journal/weblogging feature sometime Real Soon, brace yourself for comments on the level of "My Gosh! Heck! Darn! Such indignant my language lack!" (TM Keith Laumer)