Man have the last two months been busy for me. I’ve gone on hiatus writing here, and I’ve even had to go on hiatus reading my blogroll. What’s worse, things don’t show any sign of calming down. “But enough”, he says, “I will write, even if I don’t have the time”.
Some brief highlights of the last month include:
- more IT governance roles and activities, including a major CRM vendor selection for one of my clients
- system upgrade to Fedora Core 4 for all critical home servers and laptops / desktops (I wish I could say this has been painless — I’m happy to be on FC4 but it was more work that I would have liked)
- speaking at Perihperal Visionaries in Washington, and trying to moderate Dave Burstein
- some very interesting forays into IP communications and relevance to community sites, which I will write about further
- early opening of skiing here in New England — we’ve been out as a family to a few days of downhill at Crotched Mountain where we have season passes, and also into the cross country touring center at Great Brook Farm out our back door.
- a week off around Thanksgiving working on home projects including, I kid you not, insulating our chicken coop for the winter.
- researching Web 2.0 technologies
- paticipating in a local Telcom discussion group with a bunch of Berkeman, MIT, Harvard, and Boston city folk, pulling apart the Barton Dingell draft language
- visiting David Reed at the MIT Media Labs (who’s doing some very cool GPL’ed wireless mesh work btw)
I’m finally catching up on some blog reading today, here’s what bloglines is showing me for unread posts:
- Friends : (39)
- Colleagues: (292)
- VoIP: (888)
- Wireless and Mobile: (214)
- Other: (1320)
Aaieieieie — where to start. I can’t *not* read them, but it’s too intimidating to even consider. You know what I hate about bloglines. You hit on a blog that has say 50 unread entries. You read 10 or 15, but then the phone rings or you have to return to another activity. Now, you’re left with 35 or 40 unread entries that bloglines has now marked as read, and what do you do now… Fix that, will you, bloglines guys.?!?! What I’d like is that I’d like you to give me an option along the lines of “mark unread below this entry”.
One final note on this return from hiatus. I noted that Jeff Pulver was kind enough to list me in Top VoIP Bloggers of 2005 — Thanks Jeff, it’s an honor, it’s been great to run with the Pulver crowd in 2005 and here’s to a great 2006!