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	<title>Two Slashes &#187; new year</title>
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		<title>Crickets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, I didn&#8217;t get crickets for Christmas. That&#8217;s probably what anyone who actually bothered to visit my blog in the past few months has thought they were hearing, though. It&#8217;s not for lack of trying to fix that, either.  There are quite a few posts that never made it past the draft stage (I&#8217;m a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope, I didn&#8217;t get crickets for Christmas. That&#8217;s probably what anyone who actually bothered to visit my blog in the past few months has thought they were hearing, though.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not for lack of trying to fix that, either.  There are quite a few posts that never made it past the draft stage (I&#8217;m a picky writer and even more obnoxious when it comes to actually sharing things, but you probably already knew that).</p>
<p>However, despite the dry spell of posts, I&#8217;m happy to announce that my daily traffic actually went up.  That&#8217;s right, up.  Apparently I&#8217;m still something of an important Google search result when it comes to <a href="http://www.twoslashes.com/miscellaneous/removing-the-chat-from-facebook-chat/">disabling the &#8220;taskbar&#8221; on Facebook</a> (is there really a better name for it) or people who want to commit suicide (as a result of <a href="http://www.twoslashes.com/2008/04/04/go-stick-your-finger-in-a-socket/">this April Fool&#8217;s post</a>) or even &#8220;preteen porn&#8221; (I can smell even more unwanted traffic now for mentioning it, but the picture of my watch <a href="http://www.twoslashes.com/2008/12/19/i-think-its-broken/">from this post</a> seems to be particularly popular as of late).</p>
<p>(Oh, and FireStats reports that there are approximately fifty people still requesting new items from my RSS feed <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">once in a while</span> regularly.  <strong>Hello to all of you.</strong>)</p>
<p>As usual, I&#8217;m not going to make any empty promises, or, considering the date, &#8220;resolve&#8221; to become a better, more regular blogger.  Whatever happens will happen, and it&#8217;s up to my schedule and observations to enable me to come up with something I feel passionate enough to post about.  I&#8217;m going to do my best to become active once again, but I&#8217;m not going to force my hand.  This site isn&#8217;t going anywhere, even if I don&#8217;t update it for three months at a time.  (The domain itself is a gold mine, right?)  Maybe the random timing is what made it fun for everyone in the first place&#8230;</p>
<p>Even so, I&#8217;ve regurgitated a few post ideas into Evernote and I&#8217;m starting to piece them back into my usual long-winded explorations of whatever catches my interest.  Like the rest of my draft library, they may never see the light of day&#8230;but you can stick around and see if they do.  (And in the meantime, I should look into archiving them somewhere.)</p>
<p>Welcome to 2010.  Have a leftover candy cane (they&#8217;re still good), sit back, and let&#8217;s hope this new year brings plenty of annoyances to write about.</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;">(I really should start archiving them somewhere)</div>
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