There are two things in my life I am not happy about, I smoke too much and I spend too much time on the computer.

The smoking I have managed to reduce, but that final step to zero I just cannot achieve.

And computing is partly to blame, when I write a blog or a comment, my nature is to seek a smoke. If I can cut down on blogging it will be easier to cut down on smoking.

At this time cutting down on blogging is becoming easier, this could well be my last blog.

This blog site is no longer a congenial place to be, it is full of fighting and stupidity and self pity.

My main interests are science, politics, religion and humour. Now politics dominates, but it is partisan politics and this I do not enjoy, in these blogs one has to be pro PPP or anti PPP, pro Thaksin/Samak or anti them. In just the same way one is expected to be Pro Lalida or Anti Lalida.

Perhaps I am getting soft in my old age, several bloggers have suggested this. But I find it hard to accept these rigid attitudes, I find it difficult to see life and people in such black and white terms. All of those I have named in my previous paragraph have good and bad sides to their character, as have I. Yet recently I have been attacked or criticised by other bloggers, even lost friends who no longer comment to me, simply because I won't take sides, so each side sees me as supporting the other side.

Reading back over the last few paragraphs it seems that I am also indulging in self pity, but that is not the case I am simply reaching my limits with these blogs. Furthermore I think I can detect a reason.

A year ago these blogs were mainly Farang written with a few Asian bloggers, now it is reversed. Apart from random appearances of PJ, R&W, Catch and Felix, I believe that I am now the only regular Farang blogger. This blog is now a battleground of Chinese, Japanese, Thais and a few hybrids. It seems Asians don't debate, Asians fight.

So I am going to gradually fade away, the Nation weblog is now a different place from when I joined. ALL THINGS CHANGE.