NP: Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV

In which I speak directly to an audience that may not actually exist.

The good news -- or bad news, depending on your point of view -- is that I still have opinions about lots of things. The bad news -- or good news, depending on your point of view -- is that there are a variety of obstacles to documenting those opinions in this space as I have in the past.

The first, and most obvious, is time. I've been back at the full-time grind for almost six months, and have not really ramped down much of my extracurricular activity since that's happened. It's been tough to keep up on things, let alone write about them. In particular, I don't like just mouthing off about small pieces of bigger stories, so finding the time to properly marinate an idea can be difficult.

The second problem is mostly structural. I'll be on any of three computers and a smartphone at various points during the day, and haven't quite figured out the best way to parlay that into a system where I can do things like tag multiple stories about a particular topic and then bring them together into a blog post.

There's also the not insignificant matter of my Movable Type installation being horrendously out of date -- I sort of feel like I did around ten years ago when I had a hand-coded site that I new wasn't sustainable, and was hedging my bets until I had a better back end in place. Unfortunately, that's something I know I can't tackle on my own, so it's going to take outside help, and the prime candidate is currently busy with his own site.

This isn't any kind of "woe is my, my shit doesn't work right" thing as much as it's me laying out the situation so I can better wrap my head around it. To be honest, my productivity "systems" have been out of whack ever since we moved off of Exchange for Lotus Notes at my last job. I've been getting tantalizingly close to getting a better handle on all my inbound streams of information, and I'm ever hopeful that I'll make the transition from marking a bunch of things for "followup" to actually following up on them.

In case you were wondering.