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It’s been a couple of months since I blogged about how I’d<\/a> not posted all that much recently.<\/p>\n

It’s happened again.<\/p>\n

After a brief flurry I realised today I haven’t posted anything for two weeks<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea where the last two weeks have gone to be honest and I didn’t realise it had been that long<\/p>\n

This morning I think I realised that I’ve had a change in my blogging behaviour. In the past if I had an idea for a blog post I’d start writing it straight away or at the very least the next time I was at a computer. Working in this way meant that any ideas I had stayed fresh and I would forget any details<\/p>\n

At the moment when I have an idea writing the blog post goes into the “to do” list in my head where I then plan to write when I’ve finished whatever I’m currently doing. As you’ve probably guessed something else always comes up and the blogging has suffered.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it’s not a lack of ideas it’s just a behavioural thing so I’ll try and break the bad habit I’ve gotten into over the last few months<\/p>\n

Also the fact that I always seem to have something else to do indicates how busy things are for at the moment which is obviously a good thing!<\/p>\n

There is no other point to this post other than to write it while I was thinking about it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I should have plenty to write about in the next couple of weeks as we’re getting closer to the SBS 2008 launch!<\/p>\n

In case you didn’t know the WESS partner Readiness Tour has already started. Microsoft are bringing the launch to the user groups!<\/a><\/p>\n

The AMITPRO event is November 12th but unfortunately I won’t be going<\/p>\n

We’re having a short holiday while there is still just three of us<\/a> and I can’t be in two places at the same time! A colleague of mine is still going to be attending so the company will be represented<\/p>\n

I don’t really want to miss the tour though so I’m planning on going to the Bristol User Group next Thursday (23rd October – 17:30 start)<\/p>\n

The Bristol user group is run by Andy Watkins<\/a> who is very kindly letting me gatecrash \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If your a member of the Bristol user group it’d be great to hear from you before then!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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