Damn that Lileks! He keeps making me think; not in the "Things that make you go 'hmmmm'" sense, but in the critical self-examination sense.

As James points out (see the section beginning with "I had to rebuild"), writers develop their voice by just writing, and writing, and writing some more, whether they had come up with anything monumental to say or not. This truth applies doubly, squared, cubed, tesseracted (hah!) on the web, where the ease and immediacy of communication can create an intimacy between writer and reader that is flatly impossible in print. And when I list my three favorite bloggers over at the right -- InstaPundit, Lileks, and Clueless -- it's worth noting that they are also the three most prolific bloggers I know of.

Quantity isn't quality, as McDonald's proves anew each day; but when one learns by doing, quantity becomes quality.

And while we're looking over at the right, I notice that the little mini-calendar shows that a third of the way into the month, I've posted exactly once. This is not so good.

Resolved: I shall post more frequently; at least once a day. As long as I have enough net access to read other people's blogs, there's no excuse not to post to my own.

Given my record for sticking with past resolutions, New Year's or otherwise ... well, we'll see how long I stick to it. There's a reason why I chose the name for this site that I did, after all.