Yet. Another. Return. To. Blogging.

I don’t know how many times I’ve written this post over the years. I blog for a little while, then get busy or blocked and the updates stop. Months pass then I write a post about how busy I was and how I hope it’s different this time. I’m sure I’ve written one or two here, and I know I’ve done them on other, now deceased attempts at blogging. So, this time it’s going to be different, right?

Well, it’s not.

So why start back up right now when I’ll only fizzle out in a short while? It’s simple: I feel a great urge to be creative and I can’t focus that energy; the excess is now spilling out into this blog.

I see all sorts of individuals around who have created awesome things on their own or with a small team, and I want to be a part. Look at:

• Stack Overflow
• BeatPaths
• ThumbJam

The first two are great websites that I frequent and the last is an iPhone application written by a co-worker of mine. All of them had a good idea that they took and worked for years and developed into something cool they could share with others.

So how does writing this help? In many ways it doesn’t. There’s no great idea that I’m kicking around this moment, trying to gather momentum or community around. But there is the catharsis of getting *something* out and into the world, which is my biggest problem. I can’t tell you how many 80% projects I have sitting around because they’re not quite ready for others to see. (I even have three or four draft posts from months ago that I never finished to my satisfaction and helped herald the great silence on this blog.)

So, I’m dumping this crap out there, as the first little buckshot in my shotgun approach to getting something into the world. A post here. A snippet of code up on Github. A new photo on Flickr. It just may be enough to get the creative juices flowing…