Uh-oh. I've started to hit my stride on my year-end report. After grumbling last time about how too many of them are impersonal and statistic-heavy, I found my report from a year ago. I was thinking the same thoughts back then, and tried to take a different tack with it. I think I succeeded partially, at least I was fairly happy with it. If that 2003 report was still online I'd link to it, but my decrepit personal website is having transition problems right now.
This year I'm starting from the 2003 format, but rearranging some sections (putting the best stuff near the top, mainly). The good news is that I'm writing it, and on a roll. The bad news is that it's turning out to be fairly long. On my own weblog, of course there's no harm. I'm even holding out hope that it'll be worthwhile reading nonetheless! Should be ready in a few days, I'd say.
The other topical aspect of this blog entry relates to comments. I just made the setting adjustment to shut off comments entirely. It's not that I don't want them--it's just to keep the spammers at bay (I get a numerous attempts every day). Frankly, I never intended this weblog to be a dialog-type affair. Not publicly, at least. I'm always happy to receive private emails about my entries, though, and try to respond to them.
Oops! I see that I don't have an easy-to-find email link on these entries. Hmm, let's see if I can't fix that. The bottom of these entries will now have that link.