It is all about the audience

Of course I was thinking all this time: Why would anyone choose to read my blog? I am fully aware that I am not that special. I am special enough, thank, you, but not too special. There are many much smarter bloggers, writing more informative articles about anything you can imagine. So why me?

And I was also limited in that I wanted to blog in English, even if English is not my first (or second or even third) language. I read somewhere that for average Slavic speaker it takes 10 years to start using "the" and "a" articles. We don't have it in my language - we have many more and much more trickier concepts, try to learn any Slavic language :-)

Then I realized that there could be audience interested to read what I think:

• My friends from Slovakia or Russia, who are trying to learn/improve English. For them, I can even add translations of uncommon words, to make their life easier. Just ask me! :-)
  
• My friends here in USA, possibly.
  
• My future grandchildren would have something about me, in my own words. They cannot ask yet. :-)
  
• In rare occasions, I might post about some my small victories over computer complexity. Helping the next guy, as Google is helping us every day.
• And you never know, maybe someone will find something worth searching for. I am paying it forward.
  

So, now I do have a better idea why, and for whom. I'll keep you posted...