Is Submitting Your Own Blog Articles Acceptable at HN?

I'm not new to the blogging scene, but it's been just over a month since I've started taking it seriously as a medium for building contacts and getting to know great people. You can probably see from my profile that right now I have nothing interesting on my blog, but I plan to use it as a sort of scrapbook or diary where I can write down some of the really insightful things that I am told/read/discover. Is submitting your own blog posts over and over to HN considered "bad behavior"? You see, I mostly use the web for programming related activities. I get all my news from websites like HN. I rarely discover great links/articles on my own, and I don't think HN readers will be even slightly interested in mailing list debates about memory management issues in Objective-C. But what I can do is submit links to my own blog. Sometimes there are issues I wish I could discuss with people, and I find my blog is a great way to discuss those issues and keep a record for later reference. Also, being very honest about it all, I sometimes like to see some traffic in my blog stats, and some comments on my posts. If none of my posts are of any value to anyone, I think the HN community will do a great job of not letting it reach the homepage. And, just so you'd know, I have no ads on my blog and the sudden onslaught of traffic when one of my posts reaches the homepage actually poses a risk of me being kicked off of my webhost's server (cheap hosting is not cheap). So, HN, is shameless self promotion discouraged here or is it okay to post links to your own blog/website?