Does my ego look big in this?

It's a curious thing, blogging. The Internet is both private and immensely public at the same time, and the exhibitionist urge to lay the details of your life open to all-comers grows with the amount of technology that there is to help you do so. Or am I alone in that?

I like Flickr. When you post a photo, you can see how many people come along to view it. There is no such comfort in blogspot posts. It's an empty void out there in the bustling superhighways of webland. It's only the collisions, the comments, that register.

Having started off with the super-pretentious intention of avoiding personal trivia, what else is there? The accumulated archives must be dreamland for the shady secret agent types who guard and track our lives.

But when all else fails, read the manual. This post was simply to get my photo into my profile. So much fuss over so little a thing....