Getting a little time on hand is a rare thing these days. (No) thanks to a flu that has grounded me, I have a little time now as I am recouping with dozes of green and blue pills. Should be back on my feet in a day.

However, since I had a little time, I thought I will make some good use of it and put an entry in - something that also has become a rare thing. And I already have people complaining about it - which, needless to say, is a good thing to know.

So before I make a post that has been running in my head for a long while now, let me also put in a few lines about time and the meaning of "no time for blogging", strictly in my own context.

I hate to say I have no time for blogging. Many of my friends say, how can you be that busy - it takes just a few minutes to blog an entry. But then there are other friends of mine as well who like to roll an idea in their heads for a while before it is blogged.

Weblogs have become more than a fad now. Anybody who spends considerable time online has a blog. There are different categories of blogs (and no, I am not talking about categories like tech, programming, literary, etc.). Categories created by people simply because as humans we fall into different categories ourselves.

There are the simple bloggers, that use their blog space as a hyperlink aggregator, sharing with people all links they found interesting. Many people also start blogging this way. Then there are the ones who build upon this a little, add a viewpoint or two.  And then there are the ones who get linked because what they have put in is pretty much an original post or a different viewpoint that others find interesting.

There was a time when every link I found interesting, I wanted to pounce upon it and share it with friends. That interest has waned now. I no longer want to do the "check this out.." posts.  I want to do more of the viewpoint stuff. Which is why I need more than a few minutes to do a blog post. Which is why you see the number being scanty.

I only hope I had more time on hand. Maybe I should take up a full-time blogging job - on the lines of Robert X Cringely (by the way, Cringely is not a real person).

But till I get that kind of readership, I have to just keep sneaking time and hopefully without being sick.