1:03 AM
I'm back.

Of course, it's just as I was knocked out of the blogosphere for a couple weeks that Patrick was nice enough to add a link to OD to his front page. I hope that some of the folks who have been stopping by from Electrolite while I was on hiatus come back now that there will be something to see.

After a year and change of compulsively posting, it was interesting to take a couple weeks off. Just because I didn't have time to post didn't mean that I didn't have time to surf around a bit, and I came across a lot of interesting news and links. Maybe I'll play catchup a bit in the coming days.

Part of starting up my own page was to satisfy the my inner link carny--Come and see the Internet oddity! If it's not real, you can keep the truck!--while allowing people to come to me, rather than force it on them. But one of the reasons I was away was to catch up on some deadlines, and that reminded me once again just how much I love writing simply for the sake of writing. So I hope you won't mind if I start being a little...wordier in my normal posts, and I might even post some non-linkloaded posts once in a while.

If I'm not meeting your MDA of links, I've revamped the sidebar (not the one with the photos, though this is a wholly fresh batch; sorry about the heavy download for the non-broadband folks) to include all of the news and link sources I visit, the personal pages I find particularly interesting, and the online communities where I hang around. If you thought I was posting great or obscure links, it's probably only because I was standing on the shoulders of these sites. Join me in reading them. Oh, I'll keep cross-posting the best, but throwing open all my sources like this should help spur me to go find some new ones. We both win, Dear Reader.

So. Now, let the posting begin.