Wow … it’s been a long four months since I last posted here! My move from Paris to Miami earlier this year so occupied my mind that I refrained from blogging. Although some may post more in periods of change, the transition from one country to another, the administrivia involved, reconnecting with old friends and meeting new people had me more involved in meatspace than before.
Paris rocked, especially the first five years, but somehow with time, the city felt less and less like home. After watching some of my Parisian friends move out of the city, and most of my expat friends move out of the country, my turn came up. This cartoon from Hugh pretty much sums it up: just substitute "Paris" for "New York". Like frogs that won’t jump out of water that’s being heated to a boil, Parisians live in pretty stressful conditions, including noise and air pollution, poor service, high prices, cramped quarters, traffic, clouds and drizzle, multiple taxes, political gridlock and an underperforming economy. Don’t get me wrong, Paris is certainly not the worst place to live in and i’ll miss the city of lights for my friends, for its culture and for the great conversations. And Paris is a moveable feast.
Despite my four month hiatus, I haven’t been completely idle and RSS subscribers have received my daily del.icio.us links all along, which are spliced into the feedburner feed and which get automatically posted to Stonesoup. I’ve also posted photos to Flickr and have evangelized, setup and contributed to internal company blogs. Read.io took some time, and now AgeStage. But hardly a day has gone by that I haven’t thought of posting here and to FranceBrazil. And there’s really no excuse, is there, with the excellent, free tools that make blogging easy and quick, like Qumana, Performancing and Portable Firefox 
The South Florida blogging scene seems very laid back, as you might expect with the mix of great weather, beaching and boating … and perhaps a more conservative, "Southern" lifestyle. Relative to Paris, there seem to be fewer local blogs and no events to speak of, other than the first dorkbot – palm beach gathering on May 13th.
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