- As a public record of the evolution of my ideas and thinking. (Often embarassing.)

- As a reference for things I've found useful, and contextualised.

- A place I can post my highly original thoughts ... to be told "oh, X came up with that years / decades / centuries / millennia ago." Happens far more often than I'd have ever dreamed.

- As a place I can refer to / link to my own best efforts at explaining some idea or principle. Rewriting from scratch continuously is tedious.

- Rarely, for discussion.

- As a very loose bookmarking service. (Only a small fraction of references end up there, but the ones which do tend to be significant.)

- Something of a shingle, though I've not leveraged that as yet.

Every so often a particular post will take off, and it's generally exciting when it does. Rarely the pieces I pour my sweat and tears into, though that happens occasionally. What the World decides to Take an Interest in is a wonderously fickle phenomenon.

There's also the tinkering on the blog itself as a technical means of presenting, distributing, and organising information, which I find interesting.