When is one blog not enough?

I’ve wondered this a few times and actually tried to maintain two blogs for awhile. I had a wordpress.com blog and had a drupal blog and found out that even though sometimes I felt constipated and needing to post, two blogs defeated me. People like Dan York can divide up their online persona’s into distinct categories. They seem able to take an online presence and divide it into groups of things and maintain a quality and quantity of posting. I sometimes think even one blog suffers with my level of quality of posting. Quantity is something I ain’t ashamed of because I can write drivel with the best of them. Quality, sometimes I feel I work at and a few folks have told me they found the anthropology category interesting on this here blog engine. Others have said that the linux category mildly excited them. Well, that’s good.

I’m sorry to say though that I don’t write for any of them; yet if they find value good! I stopped writing this blog for others after I ran out of links. You know what that’s like right? You are pumping the 1000th blogpost out and suddenly you have linkosis. Links don’t come and you search. You are frantic. You need to reach the authority level on the Big T. You need to see your link in’s and out’s higher and higher. But there is that wall like the marathoners hit.

Well, I hit that wall some years ago and decided that this here blog was really not for anyone else. Sorry if you read this and thought I wrote all this for some altruistic and world healing thing. I don’t. I write it because I can. If you enjoy it, good. But don’t expect some quality of work or quantity of lines here. This is my property, my damned Ubuntu.

I’ve been tempted a few times to write a more technical weblog actually; to gather my so many years of experience doing technology from start-ups to companies like the GAP and Visa. Offer some great reality for everyone. Truth is, there ain’t no truth. Reality is, there ain’t none of that either. Everything you see here is what you see here. Nothing more and nothing less.

I can barely write this weblog and I admire those that can pump out the words like they’re using some secret sauce that makes words and sentences boil out. Then they can divide up their thoughts into logical frameworks and send them off into the ether to the places they belong. If I had two weblogs, I would probably not write to either of them. Its all a pretense for the most part and as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr once remarked,

be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be

I must be careful with my pretend life