Snappy the Clam

I just looked at the date since that last entry, and it's been a while. There's 3 things going on here:

• We moved last week. We're in a house now, for the first time in my adult life. It's exciting and disorienting at the same time. We've got the cable modem working, and the laptops and wi-fi. I'm planning on getting the file server up this weekend. We're starting to slog through boxes.

• Baseball season's started, so work has been crazier than usual.

• I'm definitely burning out on the self-referential, self-congratulatory world of blogging. With some exceptions, most of the blogs I read (and pretty much all of the BigBlog/A-List ones) have become extremely dull and uninteresting. I get the impression that '04 is the year when blogging hits a tipping point and goes from "potentially interesting alternative media" to "yet another exploitable piece of corporate whore grist." Note for one the subtle shift from "weblogging" to "personal publishing" in certain expansion-happy quarters.

Anyway, I'm mulling over what to do next.