Stochastic Ideations

I've never had a blog before. In fact, friends even have bets riding on my never blogging, ever. But other friends are on my case to start a blog.

My reluctance is that I can't quite figure out why anyone would read the sort of entries that I would put in a blog. If I've got something major then I'll write a paper about it, which pretty much means that anything in a blog will be minor. And in fact, based on the blogs that I've read, most of them are so minor as to be trivial. But a few are very good; the entries are more like brief magazine articles. I've written a lot of articles, so perhaps I can pull off the same thing in a blog. We'll see....