Welcome Hari, with much anticipation to Blog Interrogation. Judging by your answers to 5 simple questions, you are going to be a handful.



I really put a lot of effort into the name. At first, I came up with the brilliant and highly original idea: "Hari's Blog". It was too good to be true and perfectly reflected what it was all about, giving instant brand recognition and recall. However, I realized that I needed something a bit more subtle and spiritual, so I went with "Hari's Corner."

The "Corner" is a metaphysical concept which illustrates that nobody is the centre of anything except in a very relative sense. It is closely connected to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (and all that jazz) and is very deep, because it shows the futility of futility and the meaninglessness of meaninglessness in a meaningfully futile sense. The ever-changing, dynamic and refreshing content on the front page is the flavour of my blog. Characteristic of most blogs, the arrangement of content is in reverse chronological order which illustrates the need for standardization in structure, if not in thinking.

Choosing WordPress. Since 2.0 it's become too feature rich now. Looking back I would have preferred a lesser known and more bare-bones blogging system. That doesn't mean I like either bare or bones separately, but put together, it makes a cute, descriptive word.

No. I consider several alternatives. None of them reflect my content in its broadest sense. I am an extreme generalist. If that makes sense, you have a twisted sense of humour, otherwise... you don't.

One, myself. I get paid zero dollars/rupees/pounds/euros/yen/rial/ francs/pesos ... per hour. The biggest advantage of this payment is that it requires very little effort to convert from one currency to another, don't you agree?

A spider's web. Because as far as I know, nobody has ever published an article on a spider's web and it would be unique in the annals of history. I would go down as the first person to have ever published an article on a spider's web. Isn't that a honour worth striving for?

Ed extracts the bones from the blog interrogation

Thanks, Hari. Never let it be said you don't know your own mind, but do you know the URL of any articles on your own site? For the record you are the first blogger to promote their website under interrogation without including a single link to their best post. Congratulations!!!! So, for the record, here is Hari's most amusing post, proof that he doesn't even know Tamil either.

As for criticising Wordpress, how dare you. Have you any idea how many bloggers reading this post know exactly what you mean about bloaty blogware but have to battle on regardless, smiling and scratching their heads? Don't be so insensitive, please. (By the way, Rapidweaver is a little known blogging delight. Or you could try Notepad to get totally down and dirty.)

You clearly know far more about tech than the average person, and if that is your home in your banner, I can see it has done you no harm. How big is your basement exactly? Or should one ask, how deep is it? The further underground the geekier the inhabitant, so I believe. And what are the corners like? Did you get inspiration for your clever spider's web publishing dream by looking around you as you blog?

Having been a little pisstakery with you, I would like to heartily applaud you on your responses, and if we ever meet I will buy you a drink, which you may consider as your first ever blog-related, zero fee, untaxable income. And lastly, I love that you hate avatars. (Who can think of a more worthless, band-width sucking waste of disk and screen space than avatars: those annoying little images that members choose to place below their nicknames?) Bravo. If you ever have you anything to add to my Zwinky attacks, send 'em in.

So, who is next up? Callie Ann braved her wounds to face an interrogation, and she did OK, seeing me off without even breaking into a sweat.

George and Rob have their answers waiting in the aisles, and then we are looking for more brave hearts. Please don't think your blog is too serious or too trivial to provide the answers to the 5 questions. Everyone has a story to tell and the interrogation is a good measure of your understanding of your blog. You get backlinks amidst real content and you can be as whacky as you like for good measure too.