and thought it was funny, and chuckled a bit. And then thought about it a bit... obviously I can relate... I spend a fair amount of time googling for ...something... and yet--at least compared to back in the Usenet days (I guess I'm old) I don't spend nearly enough time contributing answers back.
Part of it is that rather than the EXACT scenario above, I find myself searching (forums, mailing lists, etc) various threads, documentation etc and NEVER post at all...
Some of this is due to the number of forums (etc)... that require sign-ups to post. After spending hours figuring out the problem, I'm not going to care enough to dig though each dead-end (or incomplete) leg of the search to find the threads that (incompletely) discussed my problem and reply with my solution.
And yet... it seems like--somehow--I should at least try to contribute to the Wisdom of the Ancients
So... I'll start a blog. No promises on how often I'll update it... or how well... or with what (though I'll try to refrain from politics and pictures of my kids) The beauty of the Internet is if there's anything worth archiving, Google will index it... and maybe someone... someday... will have an answer to their question.
