One of the reasons it took me a while to start a blog is that I used to look at other people's blogs and get annoyed if they hadn't been updated in a while. Not annoyed at the author, just annoyed for a second that there was nothing new. When you start one, there's kind of an implied promise to update it at least once in a while. So I didn't want to make that promise. I still can't, really; I'm not going to have enough worthwhile or pithy thoughts to share every day, and some of them might need to go into my other writing. Or -- who knows -- they might even go into conversation.