Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor

Hernan Gonzalez has decided to close down his blog (hopefully just for the Argentinian summer). Go and read his whole post, which has a ring of poetry about it ('we go away, just'), perhaps augmented by the lens of Babelfish. If you don't, here is an excerpt:

Beunos. We go away, just. Today it is the last day of "photos of the apocalypse". It is not that it has tired me nor bored me, nor that it is not happened to me what to post (rather on the contrary). The decision comes sudden flight by labor subjects (a short term project that, if it leaves, it would clear to me just a short time that I have; and that already me is clearing it); and the summer, good opportunity comes to take (the one that writes and those that reads) vacations. Perhaps within some short time (past the summer, for example) it returns by these worlds; I do not believe that it retakes this blog, of all ways, perhaps something similar, but nonequal. We will see.

It has been something more of a year and means, about a 1500 posts, and 80 "numbers" (weeks). When I began, it did not dream that this was going to march to this rate. Memory that the first days worried to me to point subjects to post something every day, and thought that in just a short time was going I to have left without that to say. It was the other way around; as blog was taking form, it went away turning a placentera custom (and something addictive); lately, the subjects (and the rough drafts of posts) to me were accumulated, and was sorry not to have more time to write.

It is necessary to also say, something that thought recently: the abundant production - almost three posts per day, sharps, is not little... - must to the dissatisfaction largely: sometimes I reread last post, do not like too much, seem me a little idiot and she gives a little me shame, I imagine to a then visitor who enters the page for the first time and finds "that"... and I hurry to post some other thing (generally more impersonal) for "commanding" post of doubtful taste more down. The last week I saw, with surprise, that to TSO it happens to him exactly the same).

In any case, by more modest than it has been the result, the truth is that I am very contented of it to have done. Personally, it has served to me (story this in case there is some other...) to learn some things (not only in terms to sharpen the expression: also by that of which to teach is the best way to learn). Blog finished at first being something different from the imagined thing; but it is that to do it changed it to me some ideas. And - last but not least- there am good well-known people by this means.

His blog productivity - 'blogtivity' - has been impressive. 1500 posts! I shudder to think how much I have posted since I suspect the investment would not be commensurate with the rewards, both for self and the reader. Hernan's a good one; I wish him a vacation full of the good reading and good thinking and that he share the fruits.