What's in a Theme?

Aye, there's the rub. Blogging is all well and good, but you gots to have a theme. Scattered musings on the state of consumer culture, the deplorable lack of food in public restrooms, and your favorite trance-rap band just don't serve to generate a community of like-minded folk. And when you get right down to it, I think that might be the whole point of blogging - at least, for me. It almost has a angelic choral overtones to it, doesn't it?

A community of like-minded folk.

I even considered using that as the title of the blog, except that it sounds a bit like it's going to be some off-center political rant, and that isn't really my intent, so perhaps not a great choice.

What is my intent? There are several pieces of advice that come to mind here:

• Go with what you know
• Go with what you like
• Pick something with depth that will allow you roam

And in my life, those all point to “creativity and software,” so that's what I'm going to focus on.

Now all I need is a title.