It seems like since I've gotten back from my honeymoon I've been kind of on the ropes and running behind on everything. I picked up swine flu somewhere in Maine on our trip and was incredibly sick when we returned. However having missed two weeks of work already for the trip I headed back, only to pass the flu onto at least one of my co-workers and possibly two. After a few days, and a definitive doctor's diagnosis of H1N1 [wp] I ended up back at home for nearly another week.
I was just over that and back to work when I got the news about David [jks], and so blogging has certainly not been my top priority. Add to that two articles that I've finished off for The Georgia Straight, and I actually don't feel bad about ignoring this blog. Besides apart from an accounting of the honeymoon I've not had much to write about up until recently. Ironically when I have blogged it's been for the Straight and that has been about the new Kindle I got for my birthday [tgs].
Well actually I combined a few of my gifts into the Kindle, using the money my parents and my brother gave me to order it from Amazon. Since the Kindle was only available in America when I bought it I had to get it sent to a business in Sumas that specializes in receiving packages for Canadians. Since then the Kindle has begun shipping to Canada [tgs], though I've heard that it does not have the web browser.
I've also blogged about Indigo/Chapters' moves into the ebook market [tgs] for the Straight. While I was on my honeymoon my article on Facebook games for The Georgia Straight as well [tgs].
I'm also likely going to be speaking at the 72nd annual Canadian University Press (CUP) National Conference in Edmonton this January. It's being hosted by the University of Alberta student paper The Gateway, where a number of my closest CUP friends worked at, and though it's been awhile since I've been to a CUP conference it should be fun. I've not gotten all the details nailed down, but I appear to be listed as a speaker [cup] so that's always a good sign. The last CUP conference I spoke at ended up with me writing for the Straight, so hopefully this will also be a good networking opportunity.
