The following is a guest post by Kpaul. :) A long time ago, on an Internet far, far away (when I wrote for fun - and for free), I did a piece called Portrait of a Blogger . The year was 2002 and blogging was just beginning to really hit the mainstream hard. If you're not familiar with the audience at Kuro5hin.org, they're a snooty version of slashdot readers if you can imagine such a thing. (Mentioning both of these websites is outing my age, I think.