Okay, um, I can’t seem to get my act together on this blogging stuff. I’ve been a bit… distracted lately, is one way of putting it. And now I’m about to head out to San Francisco for the better part of this week. I’ll be there until Friday morning; I’m a terrible trip planner, so for all of those folks whom I know in the Bay Area and whom I haven’t called, please forgive me. However, I’ll be around until Friday morning if you want to drop me a line — at which time I’ll be taking my nephew to Paris for a week. Look for a couple of posts while I’m overseas, at least — I figure I’ll have some free time. How hard can it be to keep an eleven year old entertained?

Sometimes I feel as if I could blog all day every day, and other times I feel like I couldn’t write another blog post if my life depended on it. At the moment I’m feeling a bit of the latter, as some readers might have intuited from the fact that for the first time in a long time, I blogged not once all last week.

Part of the blame for this goes to the disorderly state of my blogging software. I’m eager to move off of Movable Type and over to Expression Engine, but it’s a process that’s going to take lots of time (even though I’ve been receiving the generous help of some readers like Adam Khan in getting up to speed with the new software). In the meanwhile, it kind of pains me to continue to mess around with the existing platform.

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