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June 09, 2006
On The Road Again... I Just Can't Wait To Get On The Road Again..
Since mid-February, I've been on this crazy stretch at work where there's been an unusual amount of travel involved. That run comes to one heck of a conclusion this month, as I leave this afternoon for a two week business trip through western Europe. I'll be in London, Paris, Madrid, and London again before I get home in a couple of weeks.
I still might blog a little bit from the road, although I doubt I'll have much time. I will probably turn off comments altogether; my spamment infestation has not abated, and in fact the bastards even figured out I'd put in extra blocks on their commenting, so I got 140 trackback spams last night... and in two weeks, the odds are that I'd probably return to 2500 or more spamments. I just don't feel like dealing with it. And because I am remarkably un-technical, I wasn't yet able to figure out how to install authentication on Movable Type (every time I tried, it kept telling me when I tried to do test comments that "the author has not enabled this function," and wouldn't let anyone comment at all)... so the easiest solution will be to turn off comments. Anyway, that's just blog minutae to warn you that you might not be able to comment for a couple of weeks if I take the nuclear option to get rid of the little insects.
Thanks to my whirlwind immersion in the blogerati this spring through conferences and seminars, I've gotten to know a lot of people in the blog world and now count them among my friends... so I now have people to see outside of the office when in London and Paris. That part alone just makes me shake my head; that this very blog you're reading right now managed to eventually lead to my having friends in England and France -- some of them among the most influential bloggers in Europe. Ever see the Sesame Street skit about "one of these things is not like the other?" Yeah, it's like that. But I'll still enjoy seeing them. So there's some fun on this trip as well.
Anyway, this is a lot of navel gazing that I'm subjecting you to, all just to tell you that I'll probably be silent for the next couple of weeks. (Don't stop checking back, though -- I might just surprise you and drop a quick post or two on you!) If we don't blog together, have a great June, everyone.
