This is not a blog

The reasons why this is not a blog (and the reason why nobody should call it such) are linguistic: I simply do not accept the etymology of the utterance "blog". Let us revise it.

In the beginning was the Middle English logge, from which the ENglish word log, in the sense of a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long (Merriam-Webster). A round block of wood (a piece of log) was often used as the main part of the device used to measure the speed of a ship, hence the acception of the word log to indicate the record of the rate of a ship speed and then, by extension, the diary of a ship's captain.

From there, the word log has passed to denote any kind of chronological account of events. When people started putting these accounts on the web, the same illiterate who created blurts such as e-comerce or e-education (a bunch of e-diots, if you ask me) started use the term weblog and then, since these people seem unable to deal with any polysyllabic word, they cut it in the beginning into blog.

I'd rather not use a word with such poor etymology so, as I said before, this is not a blog. Call it a diary, an opinion column, a cuaderno de bitacora. Just don't call it a blog. And if you think I am too picky about language, be warned that I can do much worse, as shown in this article that appeared a few years ago on the IEEE Computer magazine.