Was chatting with Sean over Skype this afternoon about how reading blogs was getting boring and the content on most of them repetitive. It’s such a daily habit with me that reading blogs and RSS feeds has become somewhat like flipping channels on cable TV trying to find something interesting in all that noise. At least with TV there are times when there is nothing to watch. But with the web it just never ends. There’s always something leading to something else. It’s a bottomless pit. It’s gotten to the point where it’s actually affecting my health. I suppose I have a mild addiction to the Internet (don’t we all?) 8 hours at work and another 6 hours at home per day is a bit much, isn’t it?

This feeling is part of the reason that I have not been very enthusiastic about updating this blog for the past few weeks. Not that I don’t enjoy doing it but I try not to post about something unless I feel excited and genuinely passionate about it. Otherwise it’s just a chore, you know. There have been quite a lot of interesting things lately for which I have many unpublished posts, but just haven’t been able to motivate myself to finish. Another reason is simply that there are other things going on in my life that have become more of a priority than getting a blog post published. Nothing bad, in case you were wondering, just some different interests I’m pursuing.

Many good blogs I read often die out after a year or two and I’ve always wondered what happened to those people. Not a word about why their blog disappeared or anything. Did they die? Or did they have a nervous breakdown? Like Justin Hall did online in Jan 2005. In case you don’t know who he is, he’s like the Internet’s first true blogger. Probably most people just lose interest or move on with their lives or whatever. Well, I’m not planning to shut this site down completely, but I will be taking a self imposed hiatus of a couple months to focus on other things and just recharge.

I’ll be back so don’t unsubscribe my blog feed from your RSS reader just yet.

Peace.