Ugh. That’s a pretty serious mistake.

Thanks for your comments Scott, always good to find out that someone is taking my babbling seriously.

I too, have a schema diagrammed out in a notebook somewhere for my own CMS. Trying to build my own photo gallery a few years ago drove all those ambitions out of my system. Life is too short to re-implement software that’s thoroughly done.

Second, do you know how much of myself I read in this post? I wanted to start a blog too, back before I started at Amazon, and I not only wanted to host it myself, I wanted to write the CODE myself…none of this fancy-schmancy WordPress business. It was gonna have sections on politics, movies, programming, etc., and be a place where I could share photos and descriptions of things I’d done. To this day, it exists solely as a thin skeleton of PHP files on my computer that haven’t been updated in years. So I feel ya, man.

Third, don’t worry about what you write here. Don’t worry about your “target audience”. Just keep writing whatever you’re thinking about. Sometimes it’s just good to write without caring who reads it, you know? And the more complex stuff…write it in little bits, and come back to assemble it later. You’ve probably tried that already, but I know that I often let my ambitions exceed my actions, and find myself abandoning ideas because they’re too big to actualize quickly. I need to learn to start small, so it couldn’t hurt to mention it.

Finally, I see while typing this that Opera doesn’t have an entry in its spellchecker for “blog”. Or “spellchecker”, for that matter. What the hell, you guys?