I've finally caved in. The creap of technology  into my life has been gradually winning out for years, but there were specific things I feel I was winning over. I successfully resisted "the next best thing" for a while  - blackberries, iPhones, twittering, blogs, bluetooth headsets, Second Life, MySpace.

I try to keep things simple and it's too easy to be overloaded by information on a daily basis. Why would I want to keep up a blog, when I already find myself beseiged with facebook status updates, LinkedIn profile changes, other people's blogs, personal email, work email, text messages, news tickers? All of these seem to makes things more complicated. 

When my colleagues (primarily Chris and Dang) realized my name was available as a domain name, they pleaded for me to snatch it up. I caved then, but instead of using it as a personal site, I defiantly used it as the home of my summer softball team, the Random Hookups.

The softball season has ended, my infatuation with technology has mounted, and eventually I caved completely and converted my site to a personal blog. For some reason I feel ashamed.

I was in limbo. Attracted to shiny new gadgets, intrigued by new technology, magnetically lured by Facebook, but at the same time, I cursed these things. It feels to me that the moral fiber of society was being torn apart.  Will the love letters my grandpa sent my grandma while they were dating be replaced by an archive of gmail messages for grandchildren to snicker at once I've passed? 

Anyways to make a long story longer, patrickrenner.com will now serve as my personal blog. As this post suggests, my blog will focus primarily on being a mental vomit of my thoughts. Some posts may be rants, some may be enlightening, some will be a way for me to document my thoughts and ideas. All of my posts will be 100% me. I'll try not to filter myself too much by the threat of others' skepticism (more on this thought from Dustin Staiger)