"Essentially Unessential"

As the name goes "Essentially Unessential", this is what this site is about, some unessential stuff put on website because it is essential.

Well had to come up with some name for the site and could not think of a better name. The reason, well all this stuff is kind of unessential, or shall I say, excess baggage in the day to day life, but essential if you want to live in day, day out in the so called modern era of technology. I personally don't believe in making websites or blogs. According to me they are only for people with no work. But really how can I say that, especially being a person in Software Development world. Now a day’s, every Tom, Dick and Harry have something on internet/web. Tom may have only email while Dick may have email and websites whereas Harry may have both along with blog's. Taking that into consideration, I currently fall in the category of Dick. :) Yup, extremely poor joke!!!.

Technology had already caught with everybody by mid 20th century, and now it is internet technology that is catching up with everybody. Everybody now has to have an email id. Earlier people used to think creating email id, then maintaining it, removing all the spam's is a burden. People never thought that emails would literally replace postal service, but they have. Emails have almost replaced the postal services. It won't completely replace it but bulk of personnel mails which people use to fondly write have been replaced by emails. Even in third world countries (I hate that word, let’s say economically backward countries), all forms that citizens have to fill have a provision for email ids which the government officials supposedly use to contact people. Even elderly people, whom one may have thought would never give up writing snail mail getting all caught up in nostalgia, now have email ids. They may not have grasped all computer terminologies yet they will know how to switch on a computer, connect to net, and check their emails.

Blogging is now the latest fad. Anybody who has a little bit of literary flair, end up opening a blog and start maintaining their e-diary. I always wonder, if somebody gives them a nice diary and "GOLD PEN" to write with, will they still maintain their diary. I don't think so, majority of them will in enthusiasm fill the first 10 pages, then the diary will lie in corner of some bookshelf accumulating dust. The owner will never throw away that diary for just incase, someday in future he might feel like writing again. The diary will remain as a memoir of the "golden literature days" in the life of author when words flowed from his pen. Hmm... now when I think about it I understand the reason why authors need Muse to inspire them. But blog's are different. People get to write and publish all their "stories" and poems on the net and get immediate responses. That in turn spur's them on to write more.

Well finally, is it really all "Essential" or it is just some "Unessential" stuff for indulging brains into rather than wasting them away doing nothing. For me blogging is something unessential. Websites are essential though, they are the best and cheapest kind of advertisement media for a common man and that in itself says a lot. In the end, people can come up with thousands of points for and against blogs, websites and email id's, leaving the exact answer to my question no-where to be found, which in a way justifies confusion indicated by the name for this site.
- "Essentially Unessential"


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