I've always been concerned about not being able to publish enough new content on my web site. That's due to lack of time, but not always: part of the problem was that posting on a blog is hard. Not hard as in impossible to do, but rather as in not lazy enough. Clearly, the WordPress approach doesn't really work for me: I don't like using a web form to write my articles, and especially I'm not fond of the WYSIWYG way of doing things.

That's why I moved my website to Nanoc, and that was awesome. For the first time in my online life I found something that gives me full control over the way I want to publish my content and the features I want to integrate into my web site. Still, Nanoc didn't increase the number of new articles published per month.
Why's that? Simple: because before posting on my site I look at my previous articles and think: No, this is not suitable, I must research it more thoroughly or something similar. More specifically, publishing blog posts about something personal or some thoughts on something I read on a tech news site became increasingly more difficult as my main site evolved into a collection of articles.

Then, not too long ago, I had an epiphany. My fellow countryman Antonio Cangiano started a blog on Posterous! Why would someone with over 4,000 readers do such a thing? It turns out he has a similar problem (on a much bigger scale, of course):

I often feel the need to express other aspects of my persona, and my main blog, Zen and the Art of Programming, is not an appropriate outlet for such discourse. Conversely, my Twitter account, which is more generic in nature, imposes a 140 character limit on my thoughts.

So here I am. This is my new blog. As usual, it won't follow a very specific theme and posts will probably range from technology, programming, travelling, sci-fi, politics and whatever else crosses my mind. It's my newest cunning plan, in the finest Baldrick tradition: I'm not sure how it will go, but it's better than nothing.

Subscriptions are open, I hope you'll enjoy it.