Thursday, March 13, 2008

Hello World!

Hi.  My name is Ryan and I am a web addict.

WORLD: Hi Ryan.

When del.icio.us came out I also became a del.icio.us bookmark addict.  At this present day I have about 616 del.icio.us bookmarks and about 15 webpages open on my machine.

They say acceptance is always the first step to recovery.  Well,  I have a problem.

The real problem is that I love all this information, I can't get enough of it.  I've become a bookmark fiend because I want to save pieces of information thinking I'll get back to it later, which of course never happens.

So this leads to the solution to my problem which in turn is the purpose of this blog.  I propose (to myself) to post daily information I find relevant so that I have a more organized way of keeping track of all this information rather than just tossing more links into my del.icio.us bookmarks.  Also I figure I can address about five bookmarks a week, realistically speaking.  Which translates to all my bookmarks being addressed in about 120 weeks.  From an addiction recovery perspective this is rather excessive, so I'll go ahead and throw in monthly milestones to see what the progress is like.

Ah, and one more thing.  The name of this blog.  The web is a rather random place and so are my interests.  But as a computer scientist I believe nothing is truly random, hence the name pseudorandomness.  Hopefully some people will stumble on this blog along my way to recovery.  For those that do, enjoy!