Well, here we are.  After a few months of inactivity, I have once again resurrected my blog.  The name is the same, but I once again find myself on a different blogging platform with a different idea.  I suppose a little bit of explanation may be in order...

I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with blogging.  I've been doing it off and on since 2003, but I've always found myself going through phases - sometimes I would write a lot, sometimes nothing.  Sometimes I would be very focused on a specific type or types of content, sometimes not.  Ultimately, though, I've realized that I was often doing it for other people - focusing more on what the people reading it would want to see than that I wanted to write.  In retrospect, that was a really bad idea.  I also tied the blog in with my web site (which is also new - you should check it out!), which made the whole thing way more stale and "professional" than I had ever intended it to be.  In retrospect, that was also a really bad idea.  This time it will be different.  As I start this next phase, I'm honestly not sure what I'll be writing, or how often, I just know that I'm ready to write something again.  I've chosen Posterous this time around because of the simplicity and flexibility it's platform offers, and I think it will lend itself to posting a variety of stuff.  Hopefully, the content I'm publishing here will be interesting to you, and if it is, I hope you'll comment or email me and make this a conversation.  I think that would be sweet.

I'm also planning on integrating some of the posts from the previous versions of this blog (sort of the "best of the best", if you will) in the coming weeks and months, so don't be surprised if some old stuff starts to reappear.  Thanks for hanging with me and I hope you enjoy this newest chapter of the ride.  I know I will!