First question that is probably popping up : why do you blog if it sucks ?
Yeah.. Don't know.. I do know why blogging sucks though, you figure out why I still blog :)
- It takes time
- Is someone actually reading it besides blog robots ?
- I get about 20 spam comments a day and need to remove those (still by hand), useless time.
- Sometimes I get 900 spam comments in 30 minutes. They have to be removed too. Waste of time
- Now I have to learn Perl to remove spam comments automatically
- I don't want to learn Perl
- Sometimes comments looks like spam but isn't
- This blog is far from anonymous, so I cannot rant about everything without hurting people..
- It takes time, oh I did write that already.
- I love to rant in dutch if I want, but I don't want to scare of the blog robots or maybe some readers that don't know dutch.
- I don't want 2 blogs.. That means 2 x the work I already have with spam.
- I don't want to turn of comments.
- Got some suicide threats on my Don't smoke grass blog entry. I removed the comments btw. If you want to commit suicide because of that blog entry, you are way too far gone to be saved anyway. Sorry dude..
- When should I blog ? Every day ? Tell everyone I programmed today, pet the cat, ate some chinese (food, not people!), checked to see if my car is still running, cleaned my glasses, watched some soccer (yeah the dutch lost), talked to some people, chatted on msn with co-workers, I took my medication, that I listened to the radio, that my ex girlfriend uses cream to remove hairs instead of shaving her legs (and it is a lot softer than shaving too), I though about shaving (my face, not my legs), but since I have to do it again next week, I skipped today, that I did a big one twice today, one reading the paper and one reading some flyers Yawn
- What could I have done if I didn't blog ? Probably save the world or something I guess.
- I don't want to have responsabilities added to my list of responsabilities that I already have. Or isn't blogging making any expectations ? The useless traffic of robots, feed readers, the disappointment that I am not blogging that much for the robots and people who use feed readers, people start removing my blog since nothing ever happens there or is too boring. Presure, Deadlines are words that come to mind to keep the robots and feedreaders happy!
The reason why I blog anyway is probably something I don't want to hear!
I am in denial and probably need help from the AA for bloggers..
I tried the Blogging Anonymous, but anonymous my ass.
Maybe this is just a cry for help ? Do I want to know what to blog ?
Do I want to be famous ? Do I want to be heard ? Do I want any influence ? Do I want to make a point ? Do I care ? Should I be hospitalized for talking to myself in a blog ?
Maybe I just love collecting porn links from my comments ? Maybe I just love to remove spam comments whole day long ? Do I blog so I can meet my future wife ? Do I blog so I will never meet my future wife ?
Maybe it is just another programming challenge to solve some problems from the list.
Too many questions....
In short Blogging is kut! to actually add some dutch to my blog..
Posted by mvdb at July 1, 2004 02:35 AM