07 February, 2006

My Many and Multitudinous Failings

I like to keep my eye on blogs generally, not necessarily sensibly or in a returning manner, although I did read the entire archives of a guy from KSA with great interest, but just by hitting the "next blog" button. This has led me to a deep desire to discuss matters at some length with those who remove the headings from their blog, preventing me from moving on in that manner.
However, my main interest is seeing how others use the blog, seeing into their sometimes interesting minds and noting how mostly, I must admit, they publish rather differently to myself. Perhaps I do not hold any convictions strongly enough or possibly, for whatever reason, I am rather blinkered. But I don't really want to rant, or pour out drivel on various hobby horses, or expose a tortured soul, or write poetry, although a coming blog will probably have a poem I remember having written in my time at college, the only one which sticks in my mind after all these years. And I am not even prepared to go to much trouble to add to the blog,
If I had the ability I would like to write short pieces as did Patrick Campbell in his day, but I don't so this is all there is. And yet there is something peculiarly satisfying in keeping this. I think of it as a way that in the future a little bit of my life remains accessible; but I don't believe that anyone other than family would have a good reason for accessing it, and I have my doubts about them.
Perhaps it is all about personal vanity and the desire to be seen as an individual, although this bus driver, Mark Davis, in UK seems to have rather more of such desires than I.
Anyway to expose myself, I figure these guys were probably not very nice, and I also figure that this is not a good way of punishing delinquents.
Finally, having been in the Gulf, including KSA, for some years, I feel that the way the papers there include anti-Jewish cartoons does not really give them a strong basis to deplore the rather foolish Danish published cartoons. But what do my opinions matter?

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