High Volume

I've had a little bitch-slap because apparently some of my friends do read this and I have not posted in a very long time. There are several reasons for not posting anything. It's not because I had nothing to say, it's just that there were three categories of things I might have written about in the past while. The first category of things - every day life - I was too lazy to write about. The second category of things - things that piss me off - I was too disgusted with to write about. The third categories - thoughts and muses - I was too blank to write about. So I didn't write anything.
However, my meager audience demands something, so here it is.
I've read an article the other day about blogs. Some woman in a national newspaper was putting down personal, general purpose blogs as being pretty stupid. Most, she pointed out, are by people who lose interest very quickly, and their few pearls of dumbness just collect bit-wise dust somewhere on a hard-drive. She said she did not want to start off something she knows there is a 99% chance she'll abandon in a month. Anything important she has to say, she claims, she will tell her family and friends directly, and not blast it over the void.
I'd like to comment on both her remarks. First, we all like to try new things and see if we like them. Sometimes it's a new restaurant and you blow of a little bit of money tasting new things. Sometimes you buy a guitar which rots away after a couple of months. Sometimes we take sky-diving lessons for a whole lot of change, only to discover that it's the farthest thing for what may be described as "for us". Luckily, the Internet and the good folks at dozens of sites, including Blogger, will let us experiment for free. So why not? Maybe we will like it. Maybe we will write things forever. So if this appeals to you even a little bit, and you feel like you might have something that you would like to write or show and tell about, go ahead. You might find that you have a taste for it. Or at least you will know for sure it's not for you.
The second point is this: how often do we really have long hard chats with our friends? I know that if I do have the occasional "heart to heart" conversation where I can be emotional or philosophical or anything else, it's usually with a single friend. Maybe two. Sometimes I would like to convey a message for everyone, and I want to do now, as the muse strikes me. I could e-mail something, but this is so much better. It doesn't feel like it's aimed at anybody in particular, while an e-mail is so directed.
The only problem is that you can't bitch about one friend to another. You bitch to everyone about anyone - somebody out there is saying "I lost more friends that way..." - or you can keep your mouth shut.
I'm thinking of creating another entity and bitch there. Yey Internet and virtual anonymity (nobody believes that we are truly anonymous anymore, do they?).

By the way, "bit-wise dust" is my own invention. Like it? I'm starting to use it for any piece of electronically existing thing that is shelved and never touched. I've also came up with "bugware", but apparently it's already widely used. I guess I'm not as creative as I thought I was.