Here's an idea.

You may be able to do this and it's just my lack of  IT knowledge holding me back, but why can't you browse other people's blogs by category? So you could join groups like you can on Librarything.com.
That website's worth a look if you're a dedicated bookworm like myself. It's a bit fiction dominated though. I find these days I can only manage short stories. Biographies and non fiction, even travel books just seem to be so much better written than the average novel.

A good read.

I bought an interesting little book today. Buddhism, A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown.
It's published by The Oxford University Press www.oup.com. I was very impressed. I've read countless books on Buddhism in the past, but this one gives you all the basics, plus a very interesting final chapter on Buddhism in the West. It's also less than 1cm thick, so I finished it and still had time for an afternoon snooze.

It's come to this.

So after staggering from one financial crisis to the next I decided that something had to go and that something was the television. In the uk we are charged £150 per year just to watch television. Well, they have to get Jonathan Ross's 4 million from somewhere don't they? A classic example of trickle up economics where the poor support the rich. Enough ranting for now. So what's this all about? Well, I decided to improve my typing skills,  improve my writing skills and fill the gaps in my free time by writing a blog. It will be about everything and anything my restless mind contemplates. It will be a self indulgent diary. It will also be a chance for me to ask the world questions like: does anyone know who designed the houses in Greenwich Close Maidstone and why don't we have more really cool houses in this country? I may put some pictures up if I can work out a way to do it. I've come to IT very late in life, so some things that are easy for many are a mystery to me. Thanks for reading. I now have to think up some interesting things to say, won't be easy.......