Well, it’s been awhile, but (hopefully), the blog is back. Why has the blog been dark for over a year?
I thought about it for awhile, trying to get to the real reason. The “no time” excuse got dismissed pretty quickly, since I had various small pockets of time that I could have used. Similarly, the “nothing to say” argument fades away quickly since I’ve continued learning and exploring the new advanced in technology that have happened over the last year.
What’s the real reason? It might sound lame, but…the barrier to writing a post wasn’t low anymore. Why? The general pace of technology advancement simply outstripped my current computing capacity. More specifically, new advances with Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 raised the hardware requirement bar so high that my 3-year-old Windows XP dual-core laptop couldn’t keep up.
Trust me, I tried. I waited 16+ hours for the installation(s) to finish, but the end result was a way-too-sluggish machine. 2GB of RAM just doesn’t cut it, and virtual memory off of a 5400rpm hard drive is doesn’t help much.
I guess this is to be expected – advances in software typically push the limits of available hardware (or is it the other way around?). This has always been evident in the high-end graphics card market. I just found that the hardware requirement bar got pushed significantly faster these last few years due to Vista/Win7 and Visual Studio 2010.
So, the blog is back basically because I just got a new laptop 
