Things have been pretty quiet around here lately; mainly because I haven’t found anything very interesting to talk about and have been so busy doing tedious low-level programming work. It’s good to clean up and polish code, but certainly far less glamorous than inventing cool stuff from scratch. In another life, I’ve also been busy rehearsing for an electronic music concert I’ll be performing with my brother Shayne later this year. My live music chops go way back with Distant Oaks doing acoustic music, but electronic music with keyboards, computers, etc. is a very different beast.

One thought I’ll leave with you: blogging is a very personal and very immediate form of media. So much so that I sometimes fear that bloggers can get too wrapped up in a cocoon of self-glorifying reflection. You see this when prominent bloggers bristle anytime blogging or the blogosphere receives any kind of criticism. Now I love blogs, and I get a lot of my news and commentary on a variety of topics from good blogs, but I think sharp, unbalanced attacks and out-of-control egos can be a real problem sometimes. Of course, this is really all about human nature and nothing about blogging per se, but with all the talk about blogs bringing freedom of expression to everyone and turning information into a democratic, level playing-field, we have to ask ourselves this important question: what are we now free to express?

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