About half way thru 2007, I realized I was deleting all my brilliant, witty and/or memorable commentary every month. As each month's What's New went online, the previous month's commentary was lost. So, how to keep the brilliant, witty... *ahem* the commentary while not ending up with dozens and dozens of archived WhatsNew files.
Enter the Blog. Duh.
With the added bonus of getting spam from trolls feedback from visitors!