Right, so, when I started this thang, it was with the thought that I had lots of thoughts in my head that were better suited to this sort of environment than, say, LiveJournal. Mainly because LiveJournal fosters the idea of "community" and hence, more personal sharing, while an independent blog/column/whatever is exactly that -- independent. And I liked that idea.

Well, I actually do have all those thoughts in my head, yet, but for the last two months, I have gotten caught up in a strange kind of writer's block.

It's not that I have nothing to say. It's not even that I don't know how to say it. It's that, once I've written the article in my head, the actual effort of typing it out so others can read it (note how I presume others read when I post stuff :-D ) seems too much like work.

I blame Mr. Lasso (he should rest in peace), my 11th and 12th grade high school English teacher, and the man who taught me how to write entire articles in my head. I doubt it was ever his intention to set up this sort of writer's laziness. He just considered it an almost religious duty to teach kids how to write well-organised papers, not least of which so that he didn't have to read badly-organised ones, or could at least have a solid reason for grading theem downward.

Anyway, I'm going to be making more effort to crack that laziness barrier again. Probably a little less politics, for the moment, because politics aren't interesting me as much. The Israeli Politics article may not actually get written, for example, because Israel is such a bizarre morass, and one that keeps getting stranger by the minute, that I'm just not sure I can do it justice.

Instead, a series of deeply geeky articles are probably going to be forthcoming. I still need to natter a bit about my Crackberry, for one thing. And then, there's Battlestar Galactica, which has eaten a part of my brain.

Stay tuned!