I was just going to hit the sack when I noticed I had been tagged in one of those meme thingies. I tend to look at meme's as "Ideas for people who don't know what to blog about today - pass it on." Well, this is different because it is Larry Hnetka asking why I blog. Hmmm, he is a funny and mature and grounded guy who has been on the end of a few too many sarccy comments from me, so I owe him a reply. And most importantly, the meme is about a topic I actually cover here at ThePisstakers under Blogging and Tech.

So there you are, now you know why I am going to break my vow of memelessness (since the last time at least) and give 5 reasons why I blog. And after reading a tip from Phishie , the motivational blogger, I am going to give this article the subtitle, What motivates me to blog! Oooh, I feel 5000 impressions and a banner on his site coming on!!!

I have a computer, it needs a work out

There is only so much info you can include in emails to family and friends in the real world, so, rather than let the PC seize up in between the bimonthly "Hi all, and bye all" letter to family and friends, I give it a good work-out with a few blog posts.

Also, you can never really say in family correspondence what is going on in the darkest depths of your mind - it will only frighten your nearest and nearest to learn that you ponder search engines and blog interrogation techniques! A blog is therefore a great way to convey my inner techno machinations to imaginary friends in the form of enlightening and amusing articles.

Bring new design paradigms to the world

This is a rather lofty title that means I had this idea for a non-conventional web page but had no idea how to achieve it, so I got a couple of smart guys on the job. My contribution to the over bloated design world is a quirky blog theme with as few rectilinear lines as possible, a stupid iconized grin on my face and acres of white space. Feel free to run with the concept and with your next theme, go mad and save us from yet another Wordpress cookie-cutter template.

To prove that anyone can blog

I didn't know jack about blogging, except it was "hard" to make a go of it. Initially, I got sucked into the small SEO lie perpetrated by experts who want to keep the blogging game shrouded in mystery. They claim that for success you need smart SEO all the way, and that you should only link to PR4 and above sites etc. All I can say is...

If you want to write plenty about things you really enjoy and you play fair with everyone, regardless of their perceived ranking status, and you dabble in SEO and you like to get around forums and network with other bloggers and have fun, the rest comes. (As a caveat, I say this as someone who has a fairly good PR but not as much traffic as many sites with a lower PR!)

Earn loads of money

I am that guy living on easy street who wants a little extra fur lining on the sidewalk outside my palace. Got a problem with that? Wrap a brick up in a $10 bill and throw it through my window, see if I care. The $10 will be added to the donations pile in front of me, and once I have analysed the fingerprints and traced the owner, it will give me something else to blog about too.

Let off steam

Behind closed doors, I am the typical opinionated twat shouting at guests on Dr Phil, telling them to get a life. They can't hear me on the TV, but you can sure as hell read these blogged words. Hey you lazy, violent stupid losers out there, listen to Dr Ed. Start blogging like he did and get a life!

Now if that wasn't enough of a motivational and revealing insight into why I blog, then you need to go over to Blog Interrogation and read other people's revelations. There you will get a different perspective and learn something - and you won't be part of a meme either. Which reminds me, who wants to be tagged and write some more?