Back to Blogging - Silence was Golden

Some of you may have noticed my blog silence over the past week and a half and thought that I was off on some glorious vacation, sunning myself and drinking cocktails with umbrellas. Some may have thought I had achieved some zen-like state of one-ness with the universe, content to let the news cycle run without my commentary. Some may have imagined that I went on the binge to end all binges, running through the remaining 96 bottles of my nascent "99 Bottles of Beer on the Blog" series.

Alas, none of those speculations is accurate. Instead, I have been pounding my head on the impenetrable wall of Blogger software kinks and ftp mysteries. I have spent hours frustrated by error reports and opaque FAQs. This blog usually serves as a place where I get to voice my opinions and feel like my words might have some small influence, but, for the past week and a half, this blog has been a maddening reminder of my technical incomprehension.

Oddly, my silence has bolstered my popularity. The blogosphere voices its opinion through traffic, and my visitors have increased during the week of my silence. I suppose that means that I'm more attractive with my mouth shut - I do better as the strong, silent type . . .



If you're reading this, my silence has ended, and I'm damned glad to be back.