Blog Lite
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 12:33 PM [GMT-6]

I apologize for the light and/or lame blogging on The Gazette, and I make no promises for improvement anytime soon. This time of year usually slows down considerably from a business perspective, even as the personal agenda fills up with all the usual Christmas-related commitments. But this year is a bit of an exception, as I'm busier than usual with not one, but two political candidate websites.

Both are local candidates, one running for a US Congressional seat and the other for a state Senate seat. They're both conservative Republicans (gee, what are the odds?), and both are fellow members of my home church, although I don't believe that was a factor in the decisions to hire me.

I do appreciate that both campaigns elected to hire locally for their websites. That hasn't always been the case for things like this.

Anyway, it's kind of fun...this is the closest I've ever been to a political campaign, being someone who hasn't exactly burned with political passion in the past. But it's keeping me jumping, and keeping me from blogging. Well, one must have one's priorities, and coding for pay beats blogging for free almost every time.

Unfortunately, this also takes those two campaigns off the table for me, blog-wise. Not that I have any special insights to the elections, but in order to avoid any hint of conflict of interest, I shall refrain from making any observations about candidates or campaigns. (General issues are still fair game, however.)

So, perhaps we'll be able to return to more regular blogging in a couple of weeks. Don't hold your breath regarding any qualitative improvement though; if it hasn't happened by now, it likely never will!