It’s not for a lack of topics … my queue of things I would like to write about continues to grow and grow!

It’s easy to say that my day job has consumed much of my writing time… and there’s definitely a great bit of truth to that.

There’s also the fact that I have two young children and a wife whom I adore and want to spend time with… as well as other priorities in life that have taken me away from writing as much as I used to.

I do, though, want to get back to writing here, and indeed across all my sites, a bit more.

Stay tuned…
 

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2008 turned out to be a great year on so many different fronts… despite all the larger economic challenges. I had hoped to write up a longer end-of-year retrospective post, but alas, here it is, the end of the last day of the year…. That fact, in and of itself, speaks volumes about what a year 2008 was – A blur!

I think the single biggest thing I want to say right now as 2008 draws to a close is simply this:

THANK YOU!

Thank you to all of you who have continued to read my various posts… who have provided comments… who have answered the many questions I’ve thrown out there… who have challenged my viewpoints and forced me to defend – and refine – my positions… who have commiserated and rejoiced… who have sent me email suggestions… who have met up with me at conferences… who have generally just participated in this larger community. I’ve met some amazing people throughout the last year, learned an incredible amount and had a lot of fun along the way.

Thank you.

The community around this wacky industry in which we work and play continues to awe and inspire me.…

We certainly do live in fascinating times…

Here’s what is going on – When I posted my last piece about the .tel domain, it had the unfortunate side affect of destroying my layout because the DNS entries I include in a <pre> section were far longer than my layout allowed. As a result my two right sidebars were overwriting the text and the article was basically unreadable.

So I had so spend a little bit undoing the kludgey way that I’ve done the 3-column layout on this blog. LONGtime readers will recall that I set up this 3-column layout long before TypePad offered it as a standard layout – and so I had to do some real TypePad-advanced-templates hackery to make it all work. Unfortunately it always had the fatal flaw that if my posts contained images or words that were too big, the sidebars would overwrite the text. Similarly, users forced to stick with Internet Explorer 6 complained that it…

Just a note to readers: I expect that for the next 3 to 4 weeks I won’t be doing all that much blogging here due primarily to our impending move to Keene, NH, and the collision in timing of three different threads of my life:

1. We’ve now put up the signs and are officially selling our house here in Burlington, VT. Check out the website for more information, to see pictures, read the blog (yes, of course, it has one), etc. If you want to buy a house in Burlington, we’d love to hear from you. (And personally I’d enjoy it if the ultimate buyer found it through a blog. 🙂 We’re going, at least initially, the For Sale By Owner route so naturally that will occupy some of our time (hopefully!).
   
   
2. We are closing on our house in Keene, NH, on May 15th, although we are not planning to actually move down there until mid-June.
   
   
3. A major new project landed on my plate at work that should be both fun and something in which I’ll learn a lot… but it’s going to be rather all-consuming and the deadline is also right around May 15th.

Add…

As I finished up my last post with additional thoughts on Skype and hotel networks, I naturally went to look for the TrackBack URI on my first post so that I could have the link show at the bottom of the article. However, when I went to look – there was no TrackBack URI shown! I went into TypePad’s control panel and, sure enough, the checkbox for allowing TrackBacks was unchecked. In further investigation, I found it was unchecked for all my other recent posts! (Now, fixed… they all should accept TrackBacks.)

The reason was relatively easy to find. When I started using my new MacBook Pro about two weeks ago, I started using a new offline blog editor, ecto. Over in the options area, there is a checkbox for TrackBack’s that I apparently had left in the unchecked state. I have now checked it and clicked the “Make Default” button so that it remains in this state. Details, details, details… (and my apologies to anyone who was looking for the trackback URI).

P.S. If any of you are Mac users and have opinions on what is the best offline blog editor to use on a Mac, I’m…

One of the most common reactions to my note last week about my impending employment change (outside of the truly amazing things people have said) has been some variation on the question – "so what is it you want to do?"  or "what kind of roles are you looking for?"

Fair questions.  And a bit challenging given that I have a diverse range of interests and abilities.  But since I’m trying out this experiment in being very public about my employment search, I’ll list some examples of the type of roles I’m ideally seeking – along with the caveat that all of them are interesting and so a role that involved several of them might be even more interesting. So here are some thoughts:

• Emerging Technology Analyst – A good amount of the work I did for Mitel was what I talked about in my note last week.  Standing up in the "crow’s nest", staring out at the horizons to identify opportunities and threats – and then translating that into internal communication within the company about what it might mean to the business.  What’s the opportunity with social networks? Facebook? What’s the opportunity or threat with Skype?  Asterisk?  competitors?  partners? …

MANY thanks for all the kinds words sent my way after yesterday’s post, both publicly and privately.  I’ll admit that aspect of it has been a bit overwhelming!  But it’s VERY definitely appreciated.  Thank you.

As to this comment I made:

In the meantime, I may be blogging a little less here for a bit as I focus on what comes next.

The reality is that after seven years of doing it, blogging has become ingrained and is just part and parcel of what I do on a daily basis… already this morning I’ve started several posts.  I expect that I’ll realistically just keep on posting because that’s part of what I do.  Stay tuned…

And again… thanks!