“Why do you blog?” “Why did you start blogging?” Those are questions frequently asked; they cropped up a good few times at the Bloggers Bash recently and are often asked in interviews. For me the answers are simple… I started blogging to see if I could.

The first time I was asked in a job interview if I was computer literate, I lied. Well, grossly exaggerated anyway… Being of a generation that grew up without the benefit of the microchip, computing came a little late to me. I was almost forty before I became acquainted with anything more sophisticated than the Commodore C64… and that we had only used for games when the boys were small, hoping that they would be able to embrace the inevitable technological revolution.

For the next few years the home computer had been little more than a glorified word processor. I wasn’t allowed the internet…my…