February 7th marks the start of Chinese year 4706 , which is a Rat Year. In less than a week from now, the Year of the Rat officially ushers in a new 12-year cycle in the Chinese calendar that runs up to year 2019. Being the start of a new cycle, I thought that there could be no better time than now to launch this blog. Among Asians like me who believe in such traditions, the timing is supposedly auspicious (and lucky) for new endeavors initiated today. At the same time, I've been around long enough to know that without pain, there can be no gain.
And talking about pain, the idea for this blog actually took shape from the many aggravations and frustrations I experienced during my initial year as a neophyte blogger. To my mind, I reached my lowest point last December when I had a difficult widget problem which resulted after I changed from Blogger's stock two-column template to a free Wordpress-themed three-column template for my Ibanker blog.
And talking about pain, the idea for this blog actually took shape from the many aggravations and frustrations I experienced during my initial year as a neophyte blogger. To my mind, I reached my lowest point last December when I had a difficult widget problem which resulted after I changed from Blogger's stock two-column template to a free Wordpress-themed three-column template for my Ibanker blog.
But it was a journey of discovery. In the process of trying to find an online solution to this problem, I observed that most of the blogs that offered solutions or tips or explanations to blogging problems are still not "laymanized" enough for a non-techie blogger like me. Am I the dumbest blogger around who have difficulty reading into explanations that apparently everyone else understands? I doubt it.
It is this benefit of the doubt--that there might be others like me who need "plain English" explanations and tips on the more technical aspects of blogging--that prompted me to start this blog. How many blogs about blogging are already out there? A thousand? A million? Who can tell for sure? The blogosphere is expanding at a dizzying rate. However, there is one thing that I can be sure of -- there are not many blogs that are neophyte blogger-friendly, that are written in plain English, that try to laymanize IT jargons that only techies understand. Otherwise, I would never have thought of starting another blog like this out of sheer frustration. If I can only put a smile on the face of another neophyte blogger thru this blog, I would have achieved my mission already.
Kung Hei Fat Choi !
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