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This was to be a comment

As noted previously in posts a few weeks back, I was off the blogging radar (bladar?) for several months, and then some. Naturally I expected silence as a response, but several comments to those posts showed I still have readers and friends checking in. Something I can be thankful for.

So thank you! And hey to everyone.

I was adding a comment as a reply on the latest post when halfway through I thought, why not just compose the damn thing as a regular blog entry! Would at least have me posting something. And so here it is:

(By the way, I really should check valid comments, rather than just moderated submissions and blocked spam, far more often than I do…)

In regards to my writings here, the act itself must be an occasional thing for the time being — like it hasn’t before! Still, I don’t expect to be practising my vanishing act for quite a while; guff should not be anywhere as silent, ongoing.

And yes, teh Linux. I’ve worked on it in the past, as I have a number of Unix versions and variants. (Solaris anyone? FreeBSD? Yeah, I know…) It would be hard to call myself a convert as I’m fairly OS-agnostic, sticking it out with the MS product primarily because the tools I use (and like) run on it. It also helped to know it real well, so when it got funged up I could, um, unfunge it without much difficulty.

I just didn’t see Linux providing a complete desktop (or, laptop) solution for me. Vista crippling itself beyond my abilities to repair it forced me to rethink that assumption.

Relatedly, I do plan to write a bit about my experiences with Ubuntu (by the way, the 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release is just a few days away). I can’t say how much that will be. I do have some thoughts related to switching to a new OS, as well as on Ubuntu and Linux in general, and just how ready Linux is–or is not–for acceptance in a wider non-technical consumer market.

2007 represents, for me, a now heady 20 years I’ve spent doing stuff on computers, professional and otherwise. It’s strange looking back over my posts on guff and finding that my more technical (read: not so goofy) pieces don’t often focus on the details of this part of my background. But that ‘20′ has been bouncing in my head, and has gotten me a bit nostalgic. So I might be writing a lot more about it.