Blogged down / introspection

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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