Yeah, I know: it’s been a month and a half since I posted anything here … but I’m back.

I’ve been overwhelmed by two all-consuming client projects, as well as an ongoing family illness. And like many other hobbies and activities, blogging is something that requires frequent practice; not blogging for six weeks is like not visiting the gym for six weeks. Not only do I feel rusty and sluggish about the writing process itself, but I couldn’t even remember the URL for the Wordpress login page; couldn’t remember my password; and lost a page of brilliant prose by clicking somehow on the wrong button. Meanwhile, the Technorati “popularity” ranking for my blog, which had reached roughly 75,000 this spring, has dropped down to a mind-boggling 2,500,000 — partly because I launched a redesigned site in mid-May, with a different URL, and partly (perhaps largely) because the blog has been completely stagnant since mid-June. C’est la vie…

Nevertheless, I’m back … and it looks like the client projects have quieted down a little, and I won’t have much (if any) business travel for the rest of the summer. The family illness is ongoing, but it has settled into a more-or-less familiar routine of hospital visits for the time being, and I’ve figured out how to schedule all sorts of activities that I simply dropped for most of the month of June and July.

I had intended to start off this evening by writing about my experiences with my new iPhone; but it took so long to re-acquaint myself with the basics that I’ve run out of time for today.  But stay tuned; I’ll have something more substantive posted tomorrow, and hopefully I’ll return to my previous pace of frequent postings about various and sundry technological issues that cross my radar screen.