This is my first blog entry ever. Yes, I have decided to start blogging. Does anyone care? Will I have the time? The passion? The words? I have no idea, but I figured I’d give it a shot. I know what you’re thinking: “You decided to write something before you had anything to say, so you went ahead and wrote your first entry about writing your first entry! How cheesy!” Well, I will prove you wrong soon enough, but I also want to say that at least my first entry is called “Hello World” (the nerds get this, everyone else thinks I lack creativity).

I’ve felt like writing for years. More often than not this feeling has passed fairly soon. Sometimes I actually started thinking all the things I’d write about and if I hadn’t lost motivation by then, that usually did it. The past few months I’ve brought up blogging at least once a week as I walk to work with my friend Marko. He’s  the best web designer I know and I’ve had the pleasure of working with him for years (plus I’ve known him since I was 6). Whenever he rants about something, I tell him he should sit down and write his thoughts down. And then I go on to say how much I hate forms on page X. So few weeks ago, motivated about doing things one morning I made a bet with him: we both need to start blogging by the end of the month or we need to treat each other to a lunch. This is me telling him that he’s not getting a free lunch from me.

But that’s not all. I’ve always thought maybe I could share something I’ve learned. Maybe I could help others. Or motivate them. Or make them hate me even more. I’ve played drums for 15 years. I’ve been coding websites for living for 3 years and 8 months. I’ve been listening to music my whole life. I think I have something to say.

I could have met Marko in our usual street corner on Thursday morning at 7.55 AM and tell him “I was going to, but I didn’t have time to finish my own template / write all the static pages / transfer my show or cd database / list all my drum kits / write how I joined all the bands I’ve ever played in / transfer my primary domain to a new host / list my books / finalize the URL structure so it’s bulletproof and perfect for the next 100 years / our cat threw up on my laptop, peed on my work laptop, bit off my fingers, killed my wife and burned down our apartment…” or that I simply didn’t find a template that I thought was perfect. But Marko can see through my bullshit excuses just as well as I can see through his. Yes I will add a lot more content, finalize my own template (that he’s helping me with), list all my shows/bands/recordings/kits, transfer my primary domain to this blog, but most importantly I stopped coming up with excuses, sat down, rambled for a while and figured what the hell, let’s give this thing a try. Hello World.