but the reason (and I always have a good one) that I haven’t been online—reading or writing—at all of late is because I am in the midst of some voluntary life upheaval. The biggest factor in the upheaval is that I’m leaving my current job to start work at a small software consultancy owned by some friends of mine. As a result, I’ve been busy making arrangements for the change, looking for a new place to live, and in general taking care of all the details that need attention at times like these. My free time, what there is of it, tends to be spent sleeping. 
So, while I know that all these promises to be back soon and blogging are getting to sound like a broken record, I really mean that I will be back soon and blogging, once the furor settles down a little bit, which it ought to after the end of this week, which is the last at my soon-to-be-former job.