> and the reason I blog is the comments. [...] I have no idea why you would blog at all without them aside from ego. I would have not written any blog post in

> and the reason I blog is the comments. [...] I have no idea why you would blog at all without them aside from ego. I would have not written any blog post in a decade if that (EDIT: comments instead of ego) was my motivation. My blog features a grand total of 5 comments in 12 years. Writing my posts takes a lot of time and effort - they are very (by today's standards) technical, and very long, and no matter where I try posting them to get any kind of attention, I just don't get it. I decided not to care - I now write posts for a reason similar to what motivates people to sail through Atlantic alone or run a marathon. It just feels really good to get to the finishing line. But it's also a fact that I would have been writing way more often if I knew the posts will be read and discussed; I'm just finding my ways to emotionally cope with the knowledge that they won't. Yeah, I'm just grumbling, so don't mind me. Still, I'm jealous. Being able to use comments as a reason for writing would be great. So, be happy that you can do this!