Thursday, February 7, 2008

What's a Blog?

Blog....what's a blog anyway? My dad has a funny way of pronouncing it. He calls it "Beelog". Well according to Wikipedia:

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").

Anyway, I'm writing this blog to chronicle our adventures in South America which will take us at the very end of the world. Literally. I just hope we don't fall over. What if the earth really is flat!!! Only one way to find out. But for now it's back to reality and me having to fight with some server at work that just won't cooperate with me. :( Can't wait to board that plane.

PS: BTW my other two travel companions are Liang and Susan. I'll be sure to post a picture tomorrow in case you're not familiar with these two characters.