If I had enough experience, I might qualify for absent-minded professor. Instead, I'm still working on absent-minded programmer.

I knew it! One prolific blogger and industry pundit, Jon Udell, confesses that he has a lot of time to do this blogging stuff:

Now granted, my vocation enables me to spend a lot of time writing and linking, so I wind up being a more-connected node than most.

I get in less trouble now than I used to, but a lot of places just don't seem to value time spent away from "important work activities."  Oh, well.  I've still got many years to go before I make "industry pundit" status.