I feel like I must have been living under a rock or something. It was just this past Friday I discovered the Daypop Top 40. Wow! So this is the meta-level of blogging, the emergent form.

When I get the technical details worked out, I'm sure I will join the fray.

I worry though ... I only have so much time for this sort of intellectual discussion, and my perfectionism (uhh ... combined with lack of skill, no doubt) makes writing a slow process for me. If I express my anti-war sentiments (e.g. by linking to articles like this and expressing my agreement), will I be able to respond to the criticism of pro-war bloggers? If I don't respond because I'm busy with paperwork or something, will my silence be taken as an admission of defeat? Will I get sucked into a black hole of reading and responding when I should be writing code, or trying to make music, or studying Chinese, or any of the dozens of other things that should make up my life?

This is especially a problem for me, because I have to read over every word I write, like, four times or so. It's a painfully slow process for me to express myself in written words. Everything must be perfect.