After a week or so of silence on my blog, various people have been emailing me to see if I’ve gotten bored, grumpy, senile, or comatose (in which case they presumably weren’t expecting a reply). I’m happy to say that the number of concerned people has been pretty small; most people haven’t noticed at all, and probably didn’t notice even when I was blogging on a daily basis.

In any case, it’s not boredom, and I haven’t run out of things to blog about (there’s always Paris Hilton to gossip about, right?). It’s just that I’m involved in a couple of high-intensity projects that are taking up every waking moment of my time right now; there’s barely time to eat or sleep, let alone blog. I know that for some people, blogging is more important than eating or sleeping; but I’m not one of them.

One of the few things more important than eating or sleeping, in my humble life, is getting my hands on the new Apple iPhone. Yeah, I know it’s not available until June 29th; but I foolishly thought I could pre-order one, so that it would magically arrive at my doorstep on the 29th. And, even more foolishly, I thought that the sales representative at the AT&T Store (which, until last night, had a big sign above the entrance identifying it as a Cingular store) might be interested in helping me place such an order.

Nope: she wasn’t interested. She had no information, had no demo device, and no interest in me or anything I wanted; all she knew, for sure, was that her store had no way of accepting pre-orders. “So should I come back on the 29th, and see if you have any in stock?” I asked. She shrugged: “Whatever. If you want to.” She turned away, and wandered off to gossip with her friends, who were equally busy ignoring prospective customers.

The main reason I thought it would be useful to stop in the store, and talk to an alleged human being, was that I thought I might have a better chance of getting personal attention if I ran into problems with the new device, and needed some technical assistance. The (un)helpful AT&T representative certainly disabused me of that notion. So I might as well buy my iPhone online; and in that case, I might as well buy it from the online Apple store; presumably they have some interest in selling their products.

Anyway, my workaholic situation is likely to continue until mid-July, at which point (a) I may or may not have an iPhone, and (b)  I’ll be back to regale you with witty comments about the world of software engineering, project management, Web 2.0, and whatever else catches my fancy. Meanwhile, there are 71 million other blogs for you to keep up with, so I hope you won’t get too bored…