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| Tuesday, October 16, 2001 |
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Later, Dudes 
| | I leave Saturday morning for a Geek Cruise in the Caribbean. I've never been on one of these, or in the Caribbean, frankly. Needless to say, Web connectivity is an iffy proposition at best on the trip. |
| | More to the point, I need to prepare a talk — I'm a featured speaker — and I need to devote time to that, and to preparing to leave, and to the January and February issues of Linux Journal and to other stuff that pays my bills, which blogging, regretably, doesn't. |
| | Since September 11 my blogging time has gone way up. My work on a new book has languished, and so has work on other projects. I also feel like I'm starting to repeat myself. A friend many years ago once told me he hates consultants who come to work for a whole day but have a rap that starts to loop after about six hours. I don't think my rap has looped yet, but I do feel like it's more of a rap than it ought to be. And the referer page seems to confirm it. Lots of action from (much appreciated) blogrolling lists, but not much fresh pointage toward anything I've written since October 5th. |
| | In Quaker meetings one doesn't speak unless "one can improve on the silence." Maybe now is a good time to test the concept. |
| | Since a weblog doesn't chug to the beat of a daily deadline, the author has the luxury of shutting up and thinking for awhile. I need to do that. I also need to organize my work life, which is still in chaos after finding myself in my third and smallest office space this year. Dangerous things in boxes are being ignored. I need to deal with that, too. |
| | I also feel I have a lot more to learn than to say right now. There are way too many opinions in the world these days. Way too much certainty in profoundly uncertain times. I think some of that may have to do with what Rollo May said about writers, which was that they, alone among creative types, suffer the illusion that the world really needs to hear what they have to say. I also think some of it has to do with the childish need to be right, rather than to be curious or informed. And, of course, some of it is real good stuff. Trust your bloggers to find it. (Good examples: Tom Matrullo's review of Gonzo Marketing and everything JD writes about media.) |
| | As I read and work on other stuff I might hop on the blog every once in awhile and say something, or point to something somebody else is saying. But I'm shelving my compulsion to do that all the time — a compulsion that has run my life for much of the last two years. I need to see what life feels like without indulging that habit. |
| | My plan right now is to take a couple weeks off. Maybe longer. We'll see. |
| | Keep checking back. Use the list on the right as public bookmarks. I'll be doing the same. I may also post the ones I'm working with off-line if I think they're worth sharing. |
| | If you need to know what I think about something — like, say, war & metaphor — just do a search on Google for my name and the subject in question. If people are still pointing to it, you'll find the links there. |
| | And 'till next blog, hang loose. |
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