Just rediscovered Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog again (also bought a couple of books he links to...). I love this blog...hate the archive function though. Anyway one of the many great posts on there is 'Thirteen Blog Cliches' - when I finally get round to Subtexting this blog I'm implementing a few of his ideas to make life more pleasant (I also hate the resizing Tag Cloud thing he mentions...). One of his points is that blogs aren't a diary...umm I kind of disagree with that one...this blog is absolutely a random dumping ground for whatever I'm thinking about at that particular moment in time...I've written about my dad having a heart attack, about ViewState Compression, changing jobs, music I like and stuff I find generally interesting.
In short this blog is about me, warts and all. I'm not Rory (one of my favorite bloggers, funny and sad at the same time...all the weirder that I see him about campus occasionally), I'm certainly not Scott Guthrie (scary smart, the way everyone at MS should be!)...what you see is what you get. I will post obscenely technical content here, I'll also post obscenely obscene content here. I'll probably get in trouble on occasion (I post stuff here which no-one knows about me...even my own family) but above all I'll try to be honest (sometimes I'll fail, but I'll try). I really admire Rory for some of his recent posts on his attempted suicide and subsequent recovery, I wouldn't have the balls to post about that; and for me it's these which make blogs the unique medium they are.
Most of the views to this thing come from Google, I tend not to mix post content between technical and personal (and where possible tag appropriately). I have thought about using different URLs for technical content (so .net for technical, .com for personal) but I'm not sure yet.
Anyway, speccing didn't go as well as I'd hoped to going to try and get an early night (worry keeps me awake...). Wish me luck tomorrow!