Inauguration, or, First Post!

I have decided, after keeping up with a few friends' blogs pretty faithfully with Google Reader, to carve out my own space.  I have made a few attempts in the past, but they never stuck--probably because I never went public, ensuring that anyone who stumbled across the thing didn't care one whit about what was written in it.  Not this time!

The title, All Thought Leads to Action, comes from the writings of William James, an American philosopher and one of the last of the classical gentleman among other things.  The statement is certainly true, even if the action taken is nothing more than the slightest twitch of an eyebrow or the tensing of a more obscure muscle.  As a prolific thinker but a meager doer, this phrase has a special significance to me.  I hope it will encourage (chastise, browbeat, etc.) me to do more.  This blog is a start, because instead of only pondering things, setting them in order in my head, and trying to act based on my conclusions, I will share them with you.  Part of the reason for this is that I like to discuss things that interest me with other people, and another part is because I believe that the truths I am learning have value and should not remain locked inside my head.

The scope of this blog is unbounded, meaning that anything and everything is fair game: philosophy, music, religion, politics, experiences...the only thing I want to exclude is whining, because there's more than enough of that on the Internet already.

I was going to write more about William James, but I am also involved in a fierce battle with uncooperative code and an unwelcome knowledge drop on Slashdot, so it will have to wait.