Despite my not really thinking about it, it seems that folks actually read the posts here. That being the case, my vanity has kicked in and I’ve decided to approach making posts differently. I recently read a post on Steve Yegge’s blog about the length of his posts. He basically states that he purposely writes long posts, writing essays rather than the standard blog fare of “these are my cats” blurbs. (Stevey even goes so far as to cite Paul Graham’s essays, which happen to be some of my favorite web reading, as an examples.) I pondered Stevey’s post for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that I liked that style, although for a completely different reason. Up to now, I haven’t been putting a whole lot of refining into my posts, and only slightly more thought than refinement. That’s changing. I’m sure that I’ll have the one-off blurb about nothing much, but for the most part my posts from now on will have some substance…and probably a fairly high word count (ironically, the high word count will make them much like phone conversations with me).
It is going to take me a while to build up enough material to be able to post once a week with any substance, which is to say that I’ll most likely throw away more essays than I post, so please bear with me while I muster up full-blown essays, and if they’re anything like my phone conversations, you’ll be thrilled that they don’t show up more than once a month, assuming you read them to the end.
