Sludge for teh win

Over a month since my last (and first) post. This is not going well.

Here's the problem. My intention was to fill this blog with clear and insightful analysis of all sorts of programming-related topics. I have a long list of topics to rant about, so there's no shortage of material. But when I sit down to write about one of them--let's say some low-hanging fruit like how much iostreams sucks--I get worried about the accuracy of the things I'm saying. I mean, this is the internet. You can't just say things that might be wrong. So I start double checking my facts and three hours later I realize I've wasted my entire allotted time reloading reddit and rotting my brain with fluff.

So then I figure, all right, the blog is also a way to practice my writing. So I'll just write about how I don't have anything to write about, and at least that will develop the habit and hopefully over time I'll manage to shift over to meatier stuff.

But I don't want to have a blog like that, a miserable swamp of unreadable wannabe writer sludge. So I don't write that either. And then it's over a month since I posted and the thing is looking dead. I don't want a left-for-dead-after-one-post blog either!

So for now I guess "miserable swamp of unreadable wannabe writer sludge" is the winner. Hooray?

Next time: what I found when I looked under my toenails!