I BLOG, THEREFORE I AM...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Who said that?

It's one of those well-known lines from William Shakespeare. In Wikipedia, a reference to that (in)famous line can be found, portions of which are quoted hereunder:

Jack Cade (possibly named John Mortimer) was the leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion which took place in the time of King Henry VI in England

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Cade appears as a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 2. It is one of Cade's followers, in discussion with Cade, who speaks the well-known line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

So much for that English Literature 101 intro...this blog is NOT actually about lawyers, or "killing" lawyers for that matter (we'll leave that to Cade and his friends). Or Shakespeare (although I would have to think twice about Shakespearean insults).

This is about my rants, raves and reviews on just about anything, hence "unlawyer-at-large." "At large," as in not confined. "At large," as in at liberty to discourse and write on a variety of subjects. From someone educated in the social sciences and trained in the legal profession (although not in practice). From someone who loves learning about cultures of the world and has a consuming passion about the best informal education of all: travelling. Nothing is more gratifying than being able to express oneself freely and being able to share it with the world. That is the very essence of a blog (a contraction of "web" and "log"), which Wikipedia defines as:

. . . a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

Now that I have rekindled my passion for writing (I used to write for a widely-circulating lifestyle magazine), now that virtual blogging communities have been existing and phenomenally growing, now that I am up online again, I am going to renew my blogging "vows" (if there were ever such a thing, although I don't want to equate it with the usual vows of, ummm, celibacy) and become part of this exciting world once more (counting 71 million blogs as of May 2007, according to a Technorati entry in Wikipedia).

Cogito, ergo sum. (Latin: I think, therefore I am).

That's French Mathematician/Scientist/Philosopher Rene Descartes for you way back in 1637.

Now I will take a paraphrased shot: "I blog, therefore I am."