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The three or four of you that have forgotten that you have me saved to your RSS reader of choice will likely suddenly realize that I’ve not written in a long time. I didn’t fall off the face of the earth or even end up in a ditch. The fact is I saturated myself in what I loved. I love Macs and technology in general. Combine that with my work ethic-like approach to new things, and you can see how I could burn out. It became a job. An endless job of trying to turn a few grains of actual information into an expansive network of information. At one point, the site was effective enough to give you a way to track what I did minute to minute. ...

To my towel, you’re awesome and I love you. PS You’re still a towel.

Thanks to my article about a bullshit Steve Jobs interview, I’ve gotten my first threat. 12:11:04 AM mmskmmskmmsk: dlong 12:11:08 AM mmskmmskmmsk: get the fuck outta here 12:11:16 AM mmskmmskmmsk: posting garbage on digg 12:11:24 AM mmskmmskmmsk: trying to promote your own shitty site 12:11:44 AM mmskmmskmmsk: like you broke a story or something 12:11:48 AM mmskmmskmmsk: you didnt break shit 12:12:00 AM mmskmmskmmsk: the article on that site was not proven fake ...

Despite my sporadic blogging here lately, I got chosen to be interviewed with a local newspaper, the MetroWest Daily News, for an article in their Sunday edition today. I haven’t seen the finished product, but we talked about blogging, professional blogging, journalistic integrity, and a blog’s effect upon your job and career in general. Hopefully I’ll come across as insightful. I’ll try to post the link once it appears on the website. ...

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I’d figure out who said it first, but that would mean I have time to. Here’s a quick rundown of everything that’s been keeping me busy. The Day Job I’ve been involved in a task that’s rather new to me, high pressure, and interesting. Overall I’m enjoying it, but it’s still soaking up my free time. Softball to the Face I managed to take a softball to the face 2.5 weeks ago. I was wearing my glasses and as a result, I managed to shift my nose over. I didn’t feel any pain and the initial swelling hid the fact that my nose became crooked. I had a nose bleed, but it went away quickly, so I didn’t get it looked at immediately. ...

I’m sorry I said what I did. You’re amazing and didn’t deserve that. I love you.

I can’t help but feel like I’ve abused the good ranking I get with this blog on Google, but when I complained about the stress ball I had that squirted over my shirt (the Morf ball), I didn’t expect to get a response from the company. I certainly didn’t expect this kind of response. Jade Hansen wrote: We came across your web log regarding our Morf Ball. We are sorry to hear of the trouble you encountered with it leaking. As a result, we’d love to send you a complimentary Cyber Gel Squeeze Ball, our other popular stress reliever. Rest assured, this item will not explode or leak. Please provide us with your shipping address, and I will have them sent out to you ASAP. ...

After recently hinting that I had something big to share, the time has come to let everyone know what it is. Macworld has taken me on as one of two regular contributers to their new MacUser blog. This is an incredible opportunity and I couldn’t be happier to be involved with this project. I’ll be writing extremely regularly over there, though the pieces will be much, much shorter compared with my pieces here. I will be writing the occasional extended rant on MacUser, but nothing compared to here. ...

I haven’t thought of any resolutions, other than to stop being prematurely mysterious when hinting about announcements. What are yours? Have any suggestions for me? Tags: newyears, resolutions

Being the vain man that I am, I google myself every once in a while. I feel the compulsion, if for no other reason because I’m afraid of Derik Farnsworth overtaking me, then coming to my house to call me a girly man. Imagine my surprise when I found out that there was a story about me as a camel. I know everyone thinks of me as a camel because I have foul breath and spit a lot. Ha ha. Seriously though, the story is priceless as is the following repeated phrase. ...