Thanks for the tips and suggestions everyone.

@ Matt`:

My only problem with current events is that they are time sensitive. I like to queue up my posts a week in advance which means I would always be discussing last weeks news. Also, news posts don’t age well.

@ Victoria:

Thanks for lurking. Btw, comments are pretty much my best line of feedback, so I really appreciate when people de-lurk, even if it’s just to say “hey, that was interesting” or something along these lines. It lets me know that at least someone out there read and enjoyed the post. Usually if I get zero comments on a post I assume it was a bit of a dud.

@ icebrain:

Well, re-categorizing and re-tagging posts will likely help it a bit… Maybe.

@ cptacek:

Oh, nice. The short story stuff usually get very few comments, so it’s nice to see someone out there appreciated it. Awesome.

@ nitro2k01:

Actually, the related links operate via some sort of keyword based magic. I never really cared enough to investigate how the WordPress plugin that makes these links works, but it definitely relies on more than just tags/categories.

@ Ron:

Nice! Another person who liked my stories. I was sort of figuring that I’m better at regular IT horror stories than fiction, but I might give it a try again.

@ Pranav Shah:

Wow, since 2006? Damn, you have been here almost as long as me. :) I only have 3 years of seniority on you my friend.

@ Adrian:

Yeah, that’s pretty much 95% of my posts right there. :)

I love the posts about:
gaming;
geeky reviews of books and movies;
the explanations of certain concepts (such as the one about halo’s mega structures or something);
the one where you talk in depth about programming (which are really difficult to understand, but fun to read nonetheless);
and of course the ones where you rant about (the lack of) mainstream acceptance/understanding of computers.

I think this covers nearly all your posts actually.

As a regular reader since 2006, I can say I love it when you narrate tech-problems you solve for the non-geeks and I absolutely love commentary on tech circumstances more than news. I don’t care too much about reviews, but I love it when you stereotype ppl n browsers n text editors :P

I think you hit the nail on the head, the various reviews are the main thing I like at here (archive anyway), thou to follow on from cptacek a sub catagory dedicated to short stories would be nice, or a tag I guess.

I recently converted to the school of minimal stuff on desk (im a fan of minimalism else where), not for asthetic value, but to stop tripping over the piles of crap. Next to tackle the masses of cables

The related posts links are using the tags, right? Those have led me to interesting posts many a time. Don’t ruin that!

I like your “how to” posts, luser posts, rants on DRM, articles about using the right tool for the right job (I’ve picked up quite a few tools to use due to your recommendation), and your short stories. You had one short story about riding a train, going into a dilapidated part of a city and getting trapped in there until the next poor schlub was caught that I wished you had done a sequel to.

I was surprised you didn’t mention the Stuxnet virus.

I wonder how the category vs tag problem affects your readers in NewsBlur, since it uses the posts tags and/or categories (I’m not sure) to enable ‘intelligent’ classification of the content.

On the other hand, I read more or less all your posts, skipping only some RPG related ones (I don’t care for the genre), so I don’t really care.

I love your ‘Tales of woe’ about users and also book/movie reviews. Game reviews do nothing for me since I’m not a gamer. Tech things are useful too.

I rarely comment as I am a natural lurker :) but I read almost all of your stuff.

I for one wouldn’t object if you returned to covering current events of a geeky nature, but I can get my fill of that elsewhere so… no compulsion there.

Some of the more technical “how to do X in language Y” type info goes directly over my head, and I’m not as much of a reader as I used to be, so book reviews are unlikely to be of things I’ve read, or of things I will read. Still interesting though.

Keep doing what you’re doing, really.

I like pretty much everything you write except when the topic is gaming. Not your fault, of course, as I’m not a big gamer myself. But this is the one topic here that I completely skip.