So, if you know me, you know that I jumped back on the whole blogwagon about a month ago when I kept track of my first-ever trip to the Philippines in November. But now that MSN has thrown their name into the hat into the ring that is the "Blogosphere" (jesus christ how I hate that term) maybe it's time to jump back in, too.

Asian.com millionaire was the blog I had back in 2000 when I worked at Epinions.com in San Francisco. It was a weird time, when money was being thrown at geeks like Alka-Seltzer to seagulls. And it was at that time I was introduced to Pyra and the lovely Blogger. Blogging opened up a lot of opportunities for me. First socially, where I met some amazing kids who filled my head with great ideas. Secondly, I got to write. Writing is an intrinsically creative thing for me, and I hadn't realized it until I had to force myself to document my year in Dot-Communism. I've missed it. It's incredibly fun.

But blogging also has its yang... the virtual social world that opens up can quietly shut out the "real" people in your world and as crazy as it sounds, that happened. Regretfully. Also, people know way too much about you. You get used to baring all to people, like I am right now, and that's sometimes dangerous if you aren't saving anything for yourself.

So I quit. I hid out. I lived in the real for a while.

And now, dear reader, I want you to find me. But no worries. No secrets from me. No soul baring to bore you. I just want to write interesting things. If you want to read it, great. If you don't, well then that's a fine howd'youdo.

An old friend wrote me this today: "Reach out and touch someone, Greg."

Tag. You're it.