Very interesting lineup for the first Test in Bangladesh, I notice: Five bowlers with a three-pace two-spin breakup; no Yuvraj Singh or VVS Laxman (which means the team management, in picking Karthick and Dhoni over the two seniors, decided to go with current form over labels, glory be).

Watching the match, off and on, but not covering it either on Rediff or on here; working, for now, on the project I told you guys about.

Thus far, the domain is up, the blog software I want to use has been installed and is running, and while I haven't begun fiddling around with the look and feel, links, membership and such, I have over the last couple of days, as time permits, been seeding it with the sort of posting that I hope to do much more off when the whole thing is up and running.

This first look at what I am up to is primarily to ask for feedback, thoughts, suggestions, whatever. Do note -- this is a tenth of the finished product; hopefully, by the time it is fully up and running, it will incorporate blogs by various people, on their particular interests.

For now, while working on the back end of this thing, am lining up volunteers: If there is something you follow passionately -- news, either as a whole or some section thereof; current events; movies, sports - again, overall or any particular sport you are passionate about; arts; writing -- heck, if there is anything of interest that you follow with a passion, and want to write about, mail me and let's talk about it -- panix at rediffmail.com or prem.panicker at gmail.com are the ones to use, so my office mail doesn't get distracted with this.

Thanks much and see you guys around; I should be back on the cricket blog here middle of next week, once work on this one gets streamlined.