I awoke tonight from deep sleep with an epiphany (or maybe indigestion, I'm not quite clear on that yet). If there are any of you out there who actually read what I post here, I want you to know that GearBits is changing, um, gears a bit (sorry).
From now on, I don't expect that I'll be writing for you as much as I have attempted to in the past. I will still be posting news and items of interest to the gadget fan, for I am too much of one of those to avoid it. But GearBits will soon (very soon) start incorporating content of a more varied, and I dare say personal, nature than it has in the past.
Why the change? Three reasons. First, GearBits is clearly not able, or intended, to replicate the services offered by other, full-time and professionally managed technology news sites. To attempt to emulate that style produces little more than sporadic posts, any one of which having perhaps only modest appeal even to me.
Second, doing something different allows me to produce a more complete record of my thoughts. Not that all my thoughts are inherently interesting to you, but as I said above, the writing will henceforth be less specifically directed at you, my dear reader(s). By writing for myself as much as anyone else, at least one person will get long-term value out of my efforts (I apologize if that one person turns out not to be you).
And third, well, because I enjoy looking back over mundane details of my life as a sort of introverted, personal reminiscing. Paging through something as banal as a daily planner from my high school years is thoroughly enjoyable to me -- sort of a temporally displaced auto-voyeurism. While my Treo keeps track of the whens and whos and whats of my day-to-day life now, there's no good place in it for more complex musings, and that is what I'd like to add to this blog.
So, in advance, I apologize if you are less entertained by more of what you see here; my intent is not to drive you away. But, should you be engaged more, or differently, that's great...we both win.
