Blogging about blogging is so 2003, but I have some rambling thoughts I need to put down. It’s 2am and I can’t sleep so you’ll have to excuse my self indulgence. You can always stop reading, it’s my blog after all!

I’ve been struggling a bit with what to do with this blog. I’ve had several attempts at blogging since about 2001 and grown pretty tired of all of them. I started this one up mainly to write about some cycling topics, but I put anything cycling related on Sydneycyclist these days.

My feeling is I should write more about some of the technical subjects that interest me, but I’m having a bit of trouble with what sort of format that should be in.

I’m as involved in various social media sites as anyone else (well except maybe Laurel Papworth) but I couldn’t bring myself to be yet another social media commentator, or worse still “evangelist”, because well, the world doesn’t need any more of those (no dig at Laurel there by the way, she was doing it before it was cool ).

Worse still would be putting forth my armchair view on Twitter’s scaling, and how it would be so much better if they wrote it in insert your favourite programming language here instead of Ruby.

What is tempting is to blog about my explorations through various technologies and code tips, for example I’ve been working with the new ASP.NET MVC framework and learning about it the way everyone else is, by scouring blogs and spending a bunch of time in Reflector and the source code. However, for every technology that I might be tempted to write about, there is someone like Stephen Walther doing a great job and I just don’t have the time to keep up. My lone Powershell post is a perfect example. Besides, my job really doesn’t involve life on the bleeding edge (MVC framework notwithstanding), by the time I get to implement tools they usually have to be pretty stable and proven, and the blog posts are already written.

I could write reviews of stuff I use and like, and I probably will do some more of this. It brings in traffic through “the google”, but that’s not a game I want to play. The counter of that is writing rants about stuff I don’t like, but I’m really trying to avoid that because…well… who needs more whiny bloggers ? (besides Twitter is a much more satisfying tool for a quick rant).

So that leaves the question, what does a architecty type technologist person blog about in the first quarter of the 21^st century ?

I suspect the answer actually lies somewhere along the lines of blogging about code and technical explorations, but more along the lines of doing useful things. My work often involves software integration and finding the best set of tools to make A talk to B, so maybe that’s where I need to be on the blog. I have a stack of links and thoughts and notes sitting inside Evernote about things that have taken my interest, perhaps I need to start building sample applications against them and put that up here. That would at least be something a little bit different.

I’m not really ready to retire this site, I am quite chuffed I managed to get the domain name. So I think I will try to use it a bit more.

If you made it this far, well done. Like I said, I needed to get some thoughts down and I may as well hit the publish button. Feel free to comment if you have any great ideas.