Two Birds

I’ve been meaning to start blogging again for a while now.  Though I never really had any useful blog in the past I feel as though I have things to say now but never a proper venue to say them.

So what’s been holding me up?

Procrastination for one.  I’ve always wanted to design the theme and look myself using the blog as a test bed for some usability ideas.  Of course, that takes time I never seem to have, so I never got started.  Some of the free Wordpress themes are pretty nice looking now and there are a ton of premium themes on various premium sites (e.g. woothemes) so I decided to just suck it up, take a canned theme and just get started on the content.  I can build up my own theme later.

Another holdup, time.  I really don’t have time to do any of this, and I still don’t really.  With full time work and part time MBA, any free time I have is usually devoted to trying to spend time with the people I don’t have time to see.  However, I feel that the opportunity cost of not blogging is substantial.  Ideally I want to increase my visibility in the community at large (both as a career objective and for glory!) but, more importantly, I want to expand my network of contacts and learn from them.  I feel that blogging will help me achieve those goals.

With that said, I’m ready to go.  I have a few house keeping things I want to do first around the setup of the blog, but hopefully I’ll be posting some useful (to someone) content very shortly.  I learn stuff every day and try things out so I might as well share those experiences.