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• Tuesday June 10th, 2008

I haven’t really done more than lurked in the blogsphere for the last 6-12 months. I don’t think I’ve commented more than a dozen times (excluding today where I went nuts - the recent tit-for-tat bullying revenge movie extravaganza has prompted some comments) on anyone’s blog. Ruth is the same - she has been a infrequent poster of late also - though she has less excuse than me - she camps with laptop on lap on my couch and should post every night. Unless of course she’s not funny anymore. Yep. That’ll be it. Not funny anymore. Note to self - be on guard for retaliation tonight. Instead I do a lot of Twittering and IRC. Oh and work. Work has left little time to blog too. Some paid work but mostly FOSS work. Which I probably shouldn’t call “work” but sometimes feels like it is - truth be told I feel like a walking, talking support centre some days. And I cut a lot less actual code than I’d like but rather shuffle tickets and triage things. But I have recently migrated a ticketing system for Puppet from Trac to Redmine - which I am fairly chuffed about and that is already making life much easier. All in all I find the Twitter system of 140 characters updates a much smaller morsel to swallow rather than epic blog posts. Not that I wrote an awful lot of those. But I have decided to make some effort and try to blog at least once or twice a week. I don’t particularly care about readership - that was never this blog’s intent - but I do feel like the journaling/diary element of it has been lost lately as I meander along doing other things. A lot of things in my life I’d like to be taking note of for future posterity (my own future posterity - I am sure no one else cares :) ) have been happening. So first piece of news - another book in the offing/maybe/possibly - lots of issues around it and not feeling overly motivated but it’s a distinct possibility. A more Linux focussed title this time around - or perhaps more accurately back to my roots. :)