I agree with you wholeheartedly about the benefit of this, it's much more than anyone might think beforehand. I do a very similar thing, although not to a blog

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the benefit of this, it's much more than anyone might think beforehand. I do a very similar thing, although not to a blog. I have a file (notes.txt) in my home directory. Any problem or thought gets cat'ed to the file ( cat >> notes.txt ) and I type my thoughts along with a few keywords. A simple grep finds any of it. It is extremely useful once you've built up a body of knowledge. Mine is almost 10,000 lines now. N.B. If using bash or similar, "set -C" to prevent overwrites with a mistyped > instead of >> (which can be overridden with >| if you need to).