And so it begins

I've just shed my last shred of Luddite dignity. The ever-growing hold over me by the world wide web (version 2.0) reaches new heights, or maybe depths, today with the founding of my own personal blog.

My blight upon the internet now extends thusly, in chronological order of founding:

• A wiki - powered by MediaWiki
  
• Social Networking - on the ubiquitous Facebook
• Social Bookmarking - on the excellent del.icio.us
• Photo Sharing - as of yesterday via Picasa Web Albums
• And now a Blog

I've resisted this particular flavour of digital promiscuity more than any other. I mean, who am I to think that anyone else would care to read my log, whether web-based or otherwise? Reflecting upon this I was reminded of a prayer. I barely even changed the title.

The Internet-Prayer of Humble Access
We do not presume to come to this thy internets, O merciful Blogosphere,
trusting in our own righteousness,
but in thy manifold and great content.
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the comments under thy blogs.
But thou art the same Blogosphere, whose property is always to welcome more content;
Grant us therefore, gracious Blogosphere,
so to read the words of thy dear blogs, and to view thy photostreams,
that our sinful comment may be made clean by thy comment,
and our posts washed through thy most precious feeds,
and that we may evermore link to thee, and thee link to us.
Amen