Wow, almost a month with nothing on the weblog. It is not that I haven’t had stuff to write about, but there was a sort of inertia after getting back from vacation that was not limited to blogging.

I think part of the inertia has come from feeling disconnected from the Debian community. Just before going on vacation, I reverted my PowerBook to having only OS X on the drive, with the plan to use Virtual PC to host an x86 emulation instance of Debian. With Apple’s move to Intel, I have little to no interest in carrying the PowerPC Linux architecture banner anymore. It was already a hardship when PowerPC was in the foreseeable future with Apple hardware.

While I was away the dpkg changes broke java-package in a pretty major way. If I had been more watchful just before going on vacation, I probably could have prevented that. I guess that’s where my “newness” as a new maintainer really showed.

When I got back, there was a huge backlog at work and setting up the Virtual PC instance has been a less-than-stellar experience. Week 5 back on OS X, and it’s feeling a bit tenuous. So, I am behind on what I want to get done in Debian and swamped at work and home, and how fun is that to write about?