I figure I should post some sort of introduction here. As can be seen fairly easy from the title of the blog, my name’s Josh. I’m not new to the ‘blogging scene’. I’ve been doing it off and on for 4 or so years now. The main blog that I wrote before went the way of the dodo; I basically let it die off due to being burnt out.
The main cause of my burnout was pretty simple: I overdid it. I turned blogging into a job. When I wasn’t drafting a new post, I was thinking about what I could write about. I had myself convinced that if I didn’t post at least 1 thing per day, I wasn’t writing enough. Thus, people would find my blog boring, and no one would read it. Thus, the whole act would be rather pointless.
Or something to that effect.
I learned my lesson. I took a long break off from blogging. I haven’t blogged now for a good 5 or 6 months. (I do maintain a LiveJournal, but it’s completely private, and mostly revolves around daily things in my life: what I had for breakfast, what I think of the person I met at the University, so on and so forth. I definitely would not consider it a blog.)
Now that I’ve learned my lesson, I feel like blogging again. This time I’m going to blog a bit (a lot) differently. Probably the most prominent difference from before will be this: if I don’t have much to say, I won’t be posting. If that’s going to effect my ‘readership’, oh well. I learned from before that posting daily didn’t change things much anyway; even then, few people read my blog. (I’m going to guess because I forced myself to write everyday, a lot of what I posted was.. well, crap.)
Linked with this, I won’t be treating blogging like a job. There are tons of things in my life that I enjoy far more than blogging. Reading, learning languages, talking with friends, having sex, eating those really cheap miniature chocolate covered donuts that come in packs of 6. These are just a few things that I enjoy far more than blogging. I do indeed enjoy blogging – but only when I don’t take it seriously. I can write serious stuff and still not take the blogging seriously (even though I didn’t do so during my last attempt at becoming master of the world through blogging).
When all is said and done, this blog doesn’t pay my bills, or feed me, or buy books for me. I’m going to enjoy it while I can; maybe that will be for years, maybe it’ll be for the next week. At any rate, it simply is not that important. So, I’m not going to let it become my number one priority.
In regards to topics… well, lots. If I were aiming to become a Google AdSense monster, I’m sure I’d pick some niche topic. But, I have no real desire to earn my living by being a Google AdSense monster, so.. to hell with a niche topic. I’ll write about what I damn well bloody like! Oh. You wanted to know about topics. Right…
I like: books, history, languages, news, politics, gaming (lots of this!), sex (lots of this too), technology, the intarweb, computers in general, uhhh… well, you get the idea. I’m a geek.
And yes, I know. The world doesn’t need another geek blogger. I know.
It just needs me.