Forgive me readers, for I've been a bad boy. It's been some days since my last post. As usual, the social life, family, work and borrowing the first two series DVDs of 'Blackbooks' got in the way of blogging.

Thankfully, the Pig's foreign correspondent took up the slack.

Flute had an attack of 'What's the meaning of life, the universe and everything' a couple of days ago. These attacks are not unusual at the Sty. It would be nice to be able to write as well as CL, have Flute's sense of humour, and have the following of Tim at Surfdom.

I'm resigned to blog in obscurity.

To be a popular blogger, apart from being able to write well, it helps to be a student, academic or a journalist. Time is less of an issue when you can mix blogging with the day job.

Being an engineering type is a definite disadvantage. Many tech heads, myself included, find writing difficult. Engineering companies have servers full of document templates to assist a workforce that finds maths easy and can visualise in three dimensions, but can't write to save themselves.

The engineering maxim when writing technical documents is "When in doubt, plagiarise." Shocking, yes, but remember that the important thing in these documents are the numbers, not the prose.

Anyway, enough of the naval gazing. Regular transmission will resume shortly.

The last few days have been gut-wrenching, from partying and decision making, my apologies for not writing sooner. My new favourite saying goes: in a decision between yellow and blue, I chose red.

Not going to London, staying in the Czech Republic, or sojourning to Japan. Soon going to travel for a bit more in Europe then return to Australia a bit more permanently. Lots of factors, swirling like fish in a giant blender (that doesn't chop them up, of course!), didn't even see the possibility until this morning.

A top dollar decision, made for no reason other than it's what I want to do. So I'll be the foreign correspondent for a bit longer, then I'll drop off the blogsphere like a good bottle of red, before coming back to be just a humble local reporter.

More topical, humourous and relevant posts coming right up.

Tough luck Lleyton. Larger (and taller) titans have gone less far.