Quandry: you have a technical weblog, and then a non-technical topic dominates your life for a period of time preventing you from weblogging "on topic." Options: post anyway, then be grateful for those little "EDIT" buttons 'cause it's obvious the next day that personal stuff needs to get pulled <and fast!>, *OR* the other option is don't post at all, and let the non-technical topic ride itself out.

As a writer, I love the way having a technical weblog brings me into focus for my projects. If I haven't written, it's a problem, and a symptom of not being deep in my work. (Meaning my real work, the work I'm here for, as opposed to other things which are laborious but not my real work.) In this case, the weblog serves as a red flag system for correcting the course. On the other hand, as a reader, I LOOOOVE it when technical people write about personal stuff. I can't get enough of it. What's up with that?

Kudos to Julia Lerman for straddling the line perfectly with her post today.

Oh, and if anyone want's to know what's going on, write me, but I'm keeping it off this weblog.

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