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.