Back From Hiatus, Saved by Web 2.0 Technology

Well, I'm fresh back from my unannounced trip to Hiatus. It's a long, sorted and torrid story. To make a long story short, I was held captive in a primitive cave in the mountains of Afghanistan. But thanks to my recent training at RSA, I was able to communicate an SOS via a crudely crafted, low-fi Web 2.0 web service. Fortunately, some Yahoo! stockholders happened across my plea, and aided in my rescue in the hopes that after returning to civilization I might be able to use my Network World blog to sway Microsoft and Yahoo back into active merger talks. Alas, despite my best efforts, Yahoo continues to stumble along on its own, suffering a 14% devaluation in the markets today. None the less, it's great to be back!

Okay, seriously... I wasn't in Hiatus, but just on hiatus from blogging here for a bit. ("Back from Hiatus" is an old joke from one of Alan and my podcasts a while back.) I've just been overwhelmed recently with all kinds of work and personal activities, that includes attending four different conferences in the last 2 months, practicing for an upcoming CD recording project (we're in the studio this Friday), launching a new product release for Absolute Performance, setting up several new partnerships, rebuilding a corporate web site, digging deep into Microsoft's Live Mesh strategy, and building up my blog readership on my Network World blog. No excuses, but that's some of the things which have been occupying my time.

So... back to more blogging on The Converging Network. I'm really energized about what I've learned from the SaaS marketplace, and activities by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Yahoo. Some of it also comes from reading Nicholas Carr's book, The Big Switch. And of course, I have a lot to say about security, networking, virtualization and creating products.

It's good to be back.