Web and Log

It is the same for us every day anymore, here is my day, get up, work on the boat, get up, go to Lowe's, work on the boat, get up, go to West Marine, work on the boat...rain .....get up, go to Panama Marine, work on the boat....rain..you get the point!

Oh well, it could be worse! Right?

So I ain’t gonna lie. I haven’t had an ounce of desire to write in my blog, too tired most of the time, but the other night I got to thinking about the word blog, where did it come from and how did it come into play....so I had to find out....

The word blog is a conflation of two words: Web and log, in the monosyllabic and informal ways of the Internet, web log soon became known as the word blog. It contains, in its four letters, a concise and accurate self-description: it is a log of your thoughts, impressions, feelings and other such ideas that is posted publicly on the internet for others to read and comment on. Blogging is a relative new form of instant and global self-publishing, made possible by technology that has been available only for the past decade or so, it is the spontaneous expression of thoughts.

Now writing in a log is not a new thing, sailing ship have been recording logs for many hundreds of years and these logs owe their name to a small wooden board or log that was weighted with lead then attached to a line and thrown over the taffrail or stern of the ship. The weight of the lead and the board would keep it in the same place in the water, like a provisional anchor, while the ship sailed. This became known as a Taffrail log or ships log. These logs were an indispensable source for recording what actually happened on the ships and the line on the Taffrail logs was marked by equidistant knots so mariners could calculate the speed of their journey, as the ship’s voyage progressed the speed of the ship was measured by these knots, so it helped navigators surmise how far they had traveled and the ships log also provided accountability to a ship’s owners and traders.

Another form of "blogging" is writing in a diary and we can trace the diary's quirky and compelling history through centuries because lots of people wrote about themselves, their lives, family's, travels and their finding. But there is a difference between a blog and a diary, a diary is almost always a private matter and they usually are not meant to be read by others. Diaries are a unique individually literary form of blogging, its dedication to marking life as it happens and remembering life as it was, make them a terrestrial log.

Today blogging is a fun and informal way to write out loud! So have fun writing peeps and keep blogging on..

Here is a little fellow that was watching us from afar and just hanging out! I had to laugh at his antics.