It seems like everyone else out there has a blog, but I've been resisting. Partially because I feel like many blogs are just a place for the author to dump their diary, and I didn't want my blog to be that. So, when a coworker left Microsoft a little while back and asked that I blog the books that I read, I spent a while deciding whether I could contribute something useful. I'm still not sure about that, but figure that even if this becomes nothing more than a listing of the books I'm reading, it could conceivably have value for someone.

So, that's what this blog is going to be about. The books I read, how I feel about them, things like that. If all goes well, I can talk a couple of people out there into giving me pointers toward other books I might like. I love Amazon for giving me other books like the ones I'm buying, but that doesn't give much hope for finding something fundamentally new.

I'm told that talking about yourself and what you do is absolutely required for the first posting. I understand that, but I've never liked requirements being placed on me, so that can wait for the second. No books are likely to show up until the third or fourth. Fortunately, neither are any readers.