What's a good word for a category of non-technical blog posts?

Solution 1:

You can use "miscellaneous" or "miscellany".

miscellaneous: composed of or containing a variety of things; mixed; varied

miscellany: a collection of various items or parts.

Or simply "other".

"miscellaneous posts" is a very common usage also.

Solution 2:

Call it "the insane ramblings of a mad arab".

Solution 3:

Tech is Zeros&Ones, so you could call it Twos&Threes.

Solution 4:

Joey Hess calls it "lay" on his blog, so you could use that or maybe "lay person" to be clearer. I suppose you could also call them "accessible," but in the context it would probably sound like you're writing about accessibility online or paying yourself a compliment.

Solution 5:

How about calling them rambles?

It has lots of nice connotations, including talking aimlessly, if you're not taking yourself too seriously.