I’m stealing from the Comics Curmudgeon, although maybe he just stole the concept from someone else in turn. He differentiates his on-topic material (skewering the funny pages) from miscellaneous housekeeping chit-chat by labeling the chit-chat as metaposts. I like it as an early warning that you’re not getting the advertised goods. It’s hard to say what the topic of my blog really is, but this post just feels like a metapost.
This is mainly to comment on past and future posts. The past is this week’s Free Software Magazine blog entry, reprinted in the previous post. The future is that I’m working on two new posts, the first of which I hope to have ready Real Soon Now. I wanted to post it last night, but ran out of time, and then today there was the Day Job to delay me in my service to all you faithful readers.
Was it necessary to tell you all this? Even though I’ve put one week out there as my max time between posts and it hasn’t been that many days, I’m needy enough to enjoy and crave attention and more frequent reader visits and realize that requires more activity here. I didn’t want to only push the FSM reprint out as if that counted for “fresh” content. (Since I’m sure you all read it already, right?! Although honestly, I wasn’t very happy with that one. I wanted to do more with it, but I ran out of time. If I get called out for lousy reasoning or terrible writing skills in general, I’ll be defenseless. On top of that, I just said “honestly,” and the way people say that all the time is a minor peeve of mine. Does that mean sometimes the speaker is not being honest?)
So this is just to say, hang in there and please come back soon for more. I’ll have something by Friday morning. I promise.
I guess I could point you to this article by Andy Oram at O’Reilly ONLamp about Jitterbit. Jitterbit is an open-source integration tool, interesting to me because I work in application integration. I’m not sure if it is free as in free speech, and I commented about that on the web page. The article was published in May of this year and had no comments so I wasn’t expecting much in the way of discussion, but yesterday I noticed that Jitterbit’s CTO responded to me, which I thought was neat. I answered and we’ll see what comes of that.
