I gather it’s been a while since I posted to the blog since I just looked at the date and found the last entry was July 9th. Since it’s now October 31st…Halloween…I guess it’s perfectly natural that I should rise from the dead to haunt my blog.

Except that I never died, you know.

I note that the last entry was when the NAESP website crashed out on me. Unsurprisingly, I managed a restore in a day or so, though we had to pull it from a backup. But that website, the legacy site I’d inherited, wasn’t actually long for the world anyway, and within a month I’d launched a completely new Drupal based site, with all the old content ported over. Kudos to Eric Johnson, who I brought on as my Sen-Sei to make sure it went well.

It did.

Since this blog was always a collection of short shorts and essays, I never posted my SFRevu/Gumshoe obit here, but I handed both pubs over to Gayle Surrette at the beginning of last June and have been letting TechRevu limp along ever since. Charles Mohapel has been doing newsbits and some reviews for it, but that’s about all that’s been happening there. I’d like to turn on the new version, TW360 or to spell it the long way, TechWatch360, but until I’m really ready to put some energy into it I’m holding off.

Work, where I’ve had a lot of fun playing DBA and Web Developer, as well as running around the association shaking things up, has been a lot of fun…but also a lot of work. I’m really hopeful that I’m about to get things smoothed out a bit and will be able to divert some energy to my other projects…but so far. Not.

In fact…I don’t even dare talk about my projects until I can scope them out a bit more.

I do have some more short pieces to post, so we’ll I’ll see if I can’t put them up soon.

Until then, Happy Halloween.

Ern