I thought about this last night, and just now as I responded to a blog comment I saw something.

I saw on my blog, the Archives. The archives are listed per month, and next to each month is a number indicating how many posts were made that month. I observed the number going down. Oddly, my readership has gone up. Quality over quantity? I don’t know. 🙂

I haven’t blogged much lately because I just haven’t been feeling it. The job transfer a couple of months ago has left me a little depressed. I am not complaining about the fact I still have a job that pays well with good benefits. It’s just not what I want to work on, plus I think there’s a lot of misguided behavior. Let’s just say that while I love money and have no problem making it or with people who wish to make as much money as they can, to chase money for the sake of money rarely pays off in the long run. If you solve true problems, you do much better. If you make software (or any product) that doesn’t suck AND that solves people’s problems or truly makes their life easier and/or better, you do better. I’ll leave you with two quotes:

Virtue does not come from money, but rather from virtue comes money and all other things good to man – Socrates

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

To me, software should “just work”. You shouldn’t have to think about it. I guess that’s why I like Mac because, on the whole, the design ethic of Good Mac Software strives to “just work”.  And yes, to some level that makes it indistinguishable from magic… at least at first, because eventually we get used to it and it becomes the norm.

Yet, I just haven’t felt it to write. I remember when I started the blog, it was because I was wanting to join that “gun blogger” community. And while at first I blogged heavily about gun stuff, I just can’t find myself blogging solely about gun stuff. There are folks like Sebastian or Joe Huffman or The Firearm Blog that do such a better job than I ever could. Yes, I feel a little guilty about it because I know part of my readership is here because of gun stuff. But I also did realize from the get-go that a single-topic blog is hard to do, thus it’s “Stuff from Hsoi: writing about whatever interests me, and maybe you”. I left it totally open-ended. I know that I myself change. I learn new things, I explore new things. I will change, I will evolve, I will grow. Consequently, whatever I’d want to write about would change. I’m glad I left things open.

I still strive to post at least one thing every day. So far, I’ve been succesful at that. Doesn’t mean I have to write every day… sometimes I’ll write things and queue them up for posting later (the “schedule” feature is useful!). But I want to ensure one post a day, because hey… if you’re going to read, you want there to be something to read, right? Of course, I still wonder why people want to read what I have to say, because I’m just some guy… I’m no one special.

Anyways, I shall continue to write, tho the topics may change. It will be what it will be. Numbers and stats may feed the ego, but they don’t mean a whole lot in the end. I mean, I’m not writing this to see how much stuff I can post in a month or how many readers I can get. I’m writing because I like to write, even if it’s meaningless ramble like this. 🙂