A to Z Blogging Challenge 2012

Firstly, right now I am on a holiday in India. So while I am here, looking at hippies and hating them (seriously, why is the world population of hippies in such an upsurge nowadays?), please excuse me if I don't comment on your blog posts for a month or so. The internet here is horribly slow. And I'm not being a bitch here by treating 'slow' as being 'I can't download a 2 gig file in 10 minutes.' No, by 'slow', I mean speeds that are worse than dial up from the 1990s.

So pardon me while I try to exorcise the demon out of my internet connection. I promise you all that I will catch up with your blogs a soon as I am back home.

 More importantly, as I'm sure you can tell by the post title, I wanted to devote this blog post to discuss the April 2012 A to Z Blogging Challenge. "What is this new sorcery?", I hear you asking me. Well, it's a simple concept really - basically, all you have to do is blog about a topic starting from a letter of the alphabet every day during the month of April, with Sundays off. Since April 1 falls on a Sunday, that will be the day everyone starts with A. Then on 2 April, with the letter B, then C, and so on. You can pick a particular theme or freestyle, but your post must match the letter of the alphabet for that day.

If you're planning to join, you can visit the link here, and add your blog to the list attached in the post. At the same link you can also read a lot more about how the challenge works.





A month back or so, when I first heard about the challenge, I was like, "hmn, it's not really for me". But recently I have been itching to write good scientific blog posts, in a way that is simple, yet not patronising to the reader. Things that I find interesting, and things which make me feel that to die without reading about it would have been such a loss for my short organic life. And also, hopefully, things that people don't usually come across from other blogs.

So, I thought - what better way to boost my science blogging skills than by taking up this challenge? It will motivate me to research everyday for my posts, as well as introduce me to cool new bloggers.

So there we are - my central theme for the 2012 A to Z Challenge would be posts related to science/Mathematics. And before you think that I will bore the pants off you, keep in mind that I will try to keep things as fun as possible, and fill your heads with all sorts of trivia which may or may not get you laid with a member of the opposite sex.

I am still working on my full list of topics that I will be blogging about, and I will put up the list on this blog as soon as I have worked out all my Z's and X's.

I really am excited about this, and I hope you guys enjoy reading what I write.