I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus for nearly a year. The first half of the break was the result of other responsibilities and, quite simply, not feeling too eager to spend a lot of time on a laptop after work. The other half was the result of, well, a new addition to our family, which I hinted at in my last post. We had our first child last summer, which kept me preoccupied before and after he was born.

So, what follows is an attempt to add some new posts. I can’t guarantee that I’ll go back to my previous frequency of posts. In fact, that seems highly unlikely, especially since my buying power for gadgets has been, uh, significantly altered. But over the past several months I have accumulated a few things that I wanted to get around to mentioning at some point.