First things first

This - my first post on my new blog will hopefully herald many more, straight from the heart postings. I would use this first post to explain why I finally decided to get a blog, why this blog has been named the way it has, and what all I would like to share with you (my not-so-esteemed readers :)) through this wonderful medium.

I know it is very very late in the day for any self respecting netizen to start their FIRST blog in November 2006. Yet, here I am, both self respecting and a bona fide netizen, finally waking upto the reality of blogging (One of my friends would say "Good morning!" at this stage :)). Well, my way of looking at it is that once again I have proved how different, original and innovative I can be :)

On the surface, there's no particular reason that I finally decided to "take the plunge", so to speak. But I had this idea of starting a blog in my head for quite sometime now, since I was excited at the possibilities it provided in 1.) letting one organize and express their thoughts, 2.) develop and evolve one's writing style (of course for such a thing to happen it is paramount that blogs are not written in sms-speak :)), and 3.) influence others (and be influenced as well) in far off places in a regular and systematic manner. Whatever you might be thinking, the fact that Google Adsense allows you to earn money through affiliate advertising on blogs was NOT one of the reasons I decided to get into this game :p

As far as the nomenclature goes, I think RitwikVersionOnePointZero should be self explanatory (by now at least), since I am called Ritwik and this is my first blog, hence the version number.

Coming to the sort of content this blog will carry: since this is a personal blog I will not like myself to be
restricted in talking about anything and everything I wish. For obvious reasons, these would be things in which I am interested in, but the reader needn't worry on this count, as I have quite a variety of interests, and if a little perserverence is shown (which you are already showing my friend, to read uptil here :)) then I am sure that I can touch upon topics that would interest most people. More than that, I would endeavour to give my own, hopefully original take on such issues.

All comments are most welcome. I will not delete or hide ANY comment unless it is totally unrelated to the subject of the post (for eg, an advertisement for ever-effective viagara in a topic about affirmative action, although it might be interesting and maybe eventually profitable to attempt to link the two!).

Cheers!