3.0

Still on Blogger, but check out the new digs. This is the 3.0. The thrizzy, as some would say. The first version was my (now mostly broken but still legible) geocities site. Version 2.0 was this site, mcguirk.blogspot.com, in its original form. 3.0 is new and improved, utilizing some of the features of the Great Blogger Relaunch (tm) like commenting and better behind-the-scenes stuff that you don't know about. So here's the deal: I'm off to New Delhi, India this Monday, June 14th, the year of our lord 2004. I'll be studying at St. Stephen's College, Delhi from July 17th till December 23rd (the first month in India is an intensive Hindi course up in the mountains). This site is a digital notebook to try and record and analyze the probable numerous experiences I'm going to have there. I think I probably summed it up best back when I was leaving for Australia in December of 2001:

Joyce left Dublin to write Ulysses. Hemingway left Spain to write The Sun Also Rises. They had to. Distance generates perspective and understanding. Thus the McGuirk World Tour: I've been given a year in which to work, study, travel, see the world, write, take pictures, and, most importantly, gain perspective and understanding.

Life, the tour, and the exploration of all things continue...