Connecting myself with a blog

The question is, how did I put off blogging until 2005?  What possible excuse do I have for joining with the Internet hordes on their latest fad?

Perhaps it was my dismay that no blogging service allowed me to upload my 40 gigabyte photo and movie collection from two years of travel.

Perhaps it was my four friends who started competing social networking sites with blogs, which made me wonder who I would piss off if I played favorites, but mostly just made me indecisive.

Perhaps it was because my friend Barney Pell challenged me to set up a blog right now.  And then his blog post got deleted by a buggy in-browser editor.  So I can beat him and set up a blog first while I distract him with my digital camera!