The Rumors of My Blog's Death Have Been Somewhat Exaggerated

This post is dedicated to the 44 of you out there who, for some reason, still hold hope that I will be updating my blog. More likely, it is for the 44 of you who forgot you were even still subscribed.

As the year ends, you may have noticed that I have let the blog go silent since September. What you may not have noticed is how active my Twitter feed has been since. As seems the path of many other bloggers, it is time to fully move on and lay my blog to rest, giving it the respect it deserves, while giving the full attention to the infamous 140-character updater that is lately all I have time for.

With two kids, a loving wife, a full-time job and a freelance side business, the portability and lightning-fast-ability of Twitter is perfect for those precious moments of down time, while still remaining a useful way to provide good links and the personal commentary and perspective that you 44 appear to appreciate. From a purely numbers standpoint, it seems silly to write to 44 people in blog format when 186 people want to have it in Tweets.

I'm working on a redesign of my home page right now, and it will incorporate this blog only as a sidenote to let people know what I am up to professionally, and while I will keep the old content archived for the search bots, it will not be linked from anywhere important. This should keep the people happy who, to this day, are desperately searching for images of Joey Gladstone and screencaps from old episodes of The Apprentice.

So it is with 51% reverence and 49% embarrassment that I now send this out, marking my last official post of this old blog format. It's been very fun, and thanks for taking part in whatever way and for however long, but with all due respect, it's 2010 and it's time to let go.