Why?

Obligatory first post which I suppose is meant to justify the creation of this log.

Actually, I had thought about maintaining such a thing for the past 10 years whilst in grad school. I made a few meager attempts at it though those were more research logs. They never got maintained all that well but some of it's still around.

Truth is I didn't really see the point. I've even read articles to that end. Noone's ever going to read this so why bother? Then again, if noone's ever going to read this, then it doesn't hurt anything either. However, I do recognize that there are positive aspects to creating such things; things I won't really go into now because this time around I have peer pressure from friends jnet and gron who probably just wanted to have some friends that were doing what they were. Heh.

But the real answer to "why?" is an expression that I've heard a lot but most memorably (in the epiphany sense) at a cafe in Nuernberg by a waitperson when asking if I wanted a cappuccino: "why not?"