Consider this my Hello World!

Ok, so I'm driving home from work tonight and had my usual 45 minutes of uninterrupted thinking (well, uninterrupted except for the ocassional need to swerve and avoid the nuts on Lake Shore Drive.)  So my thinking led me to decide to begin a little experiment.  That's right, after reading countless blog entries over the past few years (my Bloglines Feed count is up to 79...and that's being selective!), I've finally decided to give in and start my own blog.  I know, I know.  Selling out. 

 

Well, my blog is a little different than yours...that's right, it is my first step in achieving world domination.  Oh...wait, perhaps BTJ put it best when he discussed that MSN Spaces is probably not the best platform to see that goal become a reality.  However, it DOES allow me to get my thoughts out with minimal setup and cost, and since MSN provides RSS syndication, it will have to do for now. 

 

So, back to my experiment.  Ok, I have no intention of actually achieving world domination...rather, I'd like to see just how much exposure one might achieve through blog writing.  No, I don't have any real theme that will keep people coming back, and indeed, I probably won't even keep this thing updated on a daily basis.  But, my experiment is this:  I want to see how long it takes before someone I know stumbles across my blog.  I do not intend to do ANY promoting of this blog, verbally or otherwise.  In fact, there are only 2 channels used in communicating this blog's existence:

 

1) I will ocassionally link to other friend's posts

2) If someone explicitly asks if I have a blog, I will tell them where to find it.

 

One other caveat:  I am an avid user of MSN Messenger, and from what I can tell, there is some sort of "gold star" that shows up next to the names of those that have an MSN Spaces blog.  My hypothesis is that those on my contact list will be the first to discover this blog.  However, I am really interested in seeing when a family member or very close friend discovers this site on their own.  I will be sure to keep all my loyal reader's updated with the results!

In the meantime, expect complete randomness in my posts.  I suppose I will try and maintain some categories, but I really have no theme here.  I do hope to post daily...but we all know how that goes.  So, without further ado, Engy's Experiment has commenced!