Where extraordinary becomes eccentric

The ultimate benefit and beauty of a blog is that it provides a flexible platform that allows anyone to spontaneously ventilate their thoughts into the cyberspace. Of course this advantage is lost when you spend your entire weekend thinking about what would be the most proper announcement of creating a new database table that will for some time be a quiet listener of the stories and thoughts of your extraordinary (or mundane – depends on many factors, especially the point of view) life.

I conjured up and quickly dismissed my first idea shortly after waking up this morning. The RSS reader served me the portion of the news that had happened since I went to bed the previous night and the main stories on every blog and news server obviously belonged to the failed negotiation talks between Microsoft and Yahoo!. What a wonderful opening would it be if I devoted this space to the analysis of Yahoo’s stubborn behavior that will probably prove as lethal to the company! But the last week’s coordinated attempt of a few to point at my unconventional messages spread through the Facebook status field raised some flags. So no Microsoft-Yahoo deal for now.

The next idea was no less geeky – after spending hours on meticulous debugging of a script that was malfunctioning in Internet Explorer (side note: it could hardly be called malfunctioning when it didn’t work at all), I was ready to compose a flaming diatribe at an issue that doesn’t – and, honestly, shouldn’t – interest anyone besides a small group of web developers. At that time I was beginning to grow impatient.

Once again I was left with a glass of Havana rum, several trees transformed into sheets of papers covered with the history of the Czech literature for my maturita, and a shining blank screen in Word.

How exactly free and efficient is this publishing method when one is constantly questioning himself whether the upcoming post will be appropriate? Just like in any other sphere of life it’s again the self-censorship that prevents one from developing and sharing his ideas.

A piece I posted over four years ago, on my site where I documented my endeavors in the U.S., acclaimed some aspect of American high school education (I can no longer remember which one), but that writing was met with a fierce, especially ad hominem, criticism. So I took it down. Just like one more and the two above mentioned, which didn’t even make it into written form.

That’s why I’ve decided to practice, at least in this virtual world, a perfect candor and comment on anything I personally find interesting and worth sharing.

After all, it’s my blog.