Blogging For More Than A Decade

This website, and also gr36.com, has taken on many forms over the years. I often look back at the internet archive and marvel at how undecided I have been about it. It has been a business website, a personal blog, and at some points a place that I have tried to make an income from.

Sadly, my words are not where near to the standard that real writers are, but that has stopped me blogging for around 13 years so far, and I can’t imagine not doing it. Thankfully some of my posts have been wiped form existence, I’ve only saved some of them.

The inspiration for my posts comes in waves. I sometimes post lots, about my life, my family, and the technology I use. Sometime giving opinions on topics, and sometimes just letting everything pass me by and not publishing for weeks and months at a time. I’m comfortable knowing this won't change. The lack of real motivation has been here since the start, with a post way back in 2013 saying that I will blog more.

I did try to get it together a few years ago, winning a Dentie in 2021 for Blogger of the year! The one award I have received to date, and only marginally preceding my motivation falling off again. My never wavering commitment to moving around and not staying focused I think is due to the rest of my life being so structured and dedicated. When you live out of your calendar hour by hour for work and family life, everything else gets a bit more freedom to be a mess.

I have no doubt that I will still be publishing to my website in another 10 years. Should websites and blog still exist. Quite what an ancient guy will have to write about, I’m not sure. I don’t make promises to myself any more, so who knows what the future holds but I am pretty sure it will have a blog post about it.