It's been a long time since I last visited my weblog, but between work, the baby, and the Thanksgiving holiday, there has been little time for writing. I even had to pass on my little help manual for the GNOME System Monitor to someone else to update, since I could not meet the Thanksgiving deadline.
In addition, it is sometimes discouraging to go back over what one wrote in previous posts and realize how trite or stale it reads. Perhaps it should be some consolation that as I read my book about Coleridge -- The Road to Xanadu -- it becomes clear that Coleridge wrote some pretty turgid verse on the way to his three great poems.