Getting back on the horse

Well, it's official:

(a) I've let this blog stagnate a bit. OK, more than a bit... nothing original in months. So I'm going to do something about it. I'm going to follow another ed-tech blogger's lead and join the Be a Better Blogger in just 30 Days project. Hopefully you'll see some original content instead of all of the placeholders I've been posting. That is - when I've actually bothered to post.

(2) I'm working on other tools to organize my thoughts separate from this blog. Right now I'm using a private wiki to organize long-term projects - you know, the ones that take more than a few days and are unsuited to the helpdesk software we're using - and looking for ways to improve that system somehow. Asking myself the question: would access to IM help more than it hurts, from an improvement-of-tech-service standpoint, from a personal-network standpoint, or from some other point I haven't considered yet? I think I've moved out of pure crisis mode and have found time to think about some larger questions.

(III) I have some things to put into better form both in purely technical posts (like how to make certain Linksys managed switches not suck so much) and organizational ones (where should technology resources fit on the org chart, and why). I hope not to bore you with some of the exploratory stuff, but get you to participate.

(last) If you've been following along in spite of my lack of anything original or even newsworthy, shoot me a comment. I'd like to know someone is still reading along...

Just on vacation, that's all

I've been on vacation this week. My readers (both of you - you know who you are!) have encouraged me to get away from the computer completely for a few days... and guess what? It seems to be working. Except for today, that is. Looks like I didn't quite make it after all.

Hopefully when I get back into the swing of things next week I can make more time for blogging and tweeting and other ed-tech subjects that are not directly related to work. The danger is though that it might turn into a continuation of the work day instead of something done to shift my mind away from work or even to process what I'm dealing with at work in a different way. It's a fine line to walk. How much time is too much for these side projects and musings before they seem like so much work in and of themselves? Time will tell I suppose.