New to blogging

So I'm new to blogging and I'm pretty excited about it. I work with computers a lot and sometimes struggle to find information that should be easy to find. So I decided I would create a blog that I could share my findings with other people and maybe make their life easier and learn something in the process.
So a little bit of history about me...hmm where to start...oh yes when I was just a few days old. no that'll never do. ok ok so I got my first encounter with a computer back in 1997. My grandfather of all people decided he wanted to be up on the times (yes he was 88) so he went to walmart (i think) and purchased an hp for about $1000. wonderful machine running at a blinding 233mhz!! windows 98 and a dial up! I didn't know what a computer was for and my older brother had discovered hotmail. Sweet a free service that I can use to communicate to the outside world. after finally discovering how to sign up for it I was faced with my first dilemma, creating a user name. I think it took me two days but I finally came up with something cool like coldfusion (which was naturally taken) so I became coldfusion14. Now I was ready to communicate with the whole world. So I checked my email avidly for a month to no avail. Suddenly it dawned on me that no one had my email address.
Speaking on first encounters, I remember the first video game I played on PC (beside minesweeper) roller coaster tycoon. By this time my aunt had bought a new 933mhz P3 which was the holy grail in my house. I wasn't allowed to put anything on the computer but my brother did. So I would sneak and play roller coaster tycoon whenever I could and eventually I got caught as I was so immersed in creating my park, all else around me faded. And so the story goes, as we all know immersion is half the fun of video games.
Flash forward and my current machine, just finished yesterday, is a powerhouse comparatively speaking.

Amd 5000+ Black Edition w/Zalman CNPS 9500 w/ green led
Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590
OCZ SLI-Ready 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
ABS Tagan ITZ Series ITZ700 ATX12V
EVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB
2x 36GB 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptors raid 0
COOLER MASTER Elite 330
2x NEC dvd/rw used

I know most people would probably say that I'm stupid for buying an AMD computer when Intel's core 2 duo is kicking butt. To this I have to say, I'm on a budget and I'm a big AMD fan. All my life I've watched AMD and I got into computers around the time AMD's athlon 64's started really kicking butt. I've always been a fan of the underdog so there is my stance. I'll comment more on that in later blogs.
Back to my machine I've got the processor overclocked from 2.6ghz to 3.2ghz and I've not really tried to push it much past that. The video card is overclocked to 700/2000 and haven't tried going much past that either. I got bioshock installed last night and played it some, it's an ok game, which I'll comment on in coming blogs.