Wikipedia? Over-rated

So here is the thing about Wikipedia. According to their own website, Wikipedia has 683 million visitors annually reading over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000-article mark on 9/9/07, and as of May 1st, 2008 it had over 2,395,000 articles consisting of over 1,034,000,000 words.

Some would say that since Wikipedia has such a wide range of contributors it is one of the best sources of knowledge in the world. Oh yeah I say? Well I couldn't even find out how to skin a cat and eat it the other day. So in my mind, Wikipedia is still elementary. Elementary friends.

I'm entering the Blogging world!

So I was watching a documentary on Harry Truman the other night on PBS. For those of you not in the "know", this is what you do when you don't have cable and Letterman is a repeat. I can't quite recall any details about Harry Truman's life or accomplishments, but I do know that he kept a detailed journal in which he wrote in every night. The fact that this is what stuck out to me about the man leading our country at the end of WWII and gave the final yes to dropping the only 2 nuclear bombs (3 if you count the practice run) in the history of the world... made me wonder if my life would be better if I kept a journal.

Of course, the answer was an immediate "no" because honestly, who journals anymore. Girls do. About crushes and feelings. Boring. But alas, I do have to concede that there probably is some benefit of having a place to write your thoughts, life milestones, and current events. And what safer place than the World Wide Web? As a famous psychiatrist once said, "Just blog it out." So here I go. This is more for me than you, but I hope you are entertained anyway.

My only commitment to this blog is that I will not say anything too controversial that others may point to in the future in order discredit my credibility. Because you never know if you're going to wake up one day and run for president.