OK so that previous post was a bit laim. I admit it, I just had a brain fart and felt the urge to post something - anything really - just so that I could say : “I’ve posted something”. I’ll better myself. Starting right now.

Although I have not taken to any New Year resolutions - whatever my better half may have hoped for - I do feel the need to better myself a little in regards to this blog. Besides my wife, family and 1 or 2 other people this blog has been the longest standing relationship I’ve had with anything in my life. Lately, and the measure is broad, my relationship with it has been shaky to say the least.

If postings were a measure of the health of my relation with the blog we’d be in real trouble. Postings have become few and far between dropping to an all time low of less than a dozen over the past year. Driven by a general reluctance to posting anything which could make a blimp on my ego-meter, an all too busy work and home schedule and you’ve got yourself the desert of thought this space has been over the last year or two. Perhaps these are just excuses though – it might very well be that I just had nothing to report which I though was share-with-the-world worthy.

Perhaps the right question to ask is who I believe the target audience for this blog to be. Mulling this over I have to admit that there have been a number of times in the past when I’ve started writing and simply aborted. Concern for who might actually read the post-to-be was a killer: “Would a colleague read it? Some have my personal email address and thus might stumble across the domain! What about family? do I want them to read my deep dark thoughts? Etc. etc.” Solving the audience question appears to be part of the solution for my relationship with this blog. Being true to my audience, not caving in to the influence of others – perceived or otherwise – will also have an enormous bearing on the quality of the relation.

So there we have it. A start of a new year. Who are you?