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Just post it (why short entries are boring)

As you can tell I run hot or cold. No blogging for a while now, not for lack of drafts, but out of apathy. They’ve been mostly short bits. Interesting perhaps, but not things where I have too much to say. You’d think such restraint might be good, but no, that’s called driving away readers.

Tony says to just post it (and to keep the others shorter too). I say ‘enh’.

Isn’t there supposed to be an important point driving each post? Maybe not. Maybe it’s just branding. Maybe I should have my picture on my blog like Russ or Niall, because as movie stars know, frequent impressions make humans like other humans. Or so I hear.

But in good faith and to be a good sport, I’ll post the little bits I have, backdating them to the draft date. So beware the stories of my user-ville trails and tribulations and flotsam and jetsam.

And no, the answer isn’t just to be interesting all the time. I’m thinking, and mulling, and growling, and furrowing my brow. Thinking about what I want to do next - which for the first time in my life isn’t crystal clear. Which is itself pretty irritating. Thanks for bringing it up.

Just so you know I’m serious, I’ll close by reporting on one of my more successful projects lately, a Make-worthy scheme to defend my porch herbs from bluejays with a bobblehead owl. Bobblehead is just the thing, ‘cept a breeze is a rare thing here in lovely Menlo Park (the sounding of my windchimes typically presages power outages). Mike suggested twitch-enabling the owl with fishing line stretched into my office. And why not? It’s a hell of a lot more fulfilling than working through Javascript to hack Firefox or pondering the vicissitudes of calendar sharing or a chick blogging conference. And it causes such consternation among our gardener dudes, who duck thinking the owl’s real.

And that should make a more favorable story, as opposed to a confessional outlining my luser adventures trying to get Bluetooth Dial up Networking working over Cingular. Successful? No, but I can at least HotSync over Bluetooth now, though it did take full system reclone. And no, the answer is not to get a Mac (why isn’t Linux the proffered choice of the elite? yet more irritation).

So the lesson of the last couple weeks is that all this tech is too wonky, too convoluted, and just too geeky for anyone but sabbatics to screw with. And when you think you can be tricky, you can’t.

The snappy retort there is to fix it, but where do you start?

I’m so much crankier without a run.