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By laelaps on June 3, 2010.

As you can probably tell from the last two "photos of the day", I'm back from Utah. It was a wonderful trip, but I have been too swamped with other projects/commitments to get this blog back up to speed. Regular blog entries will resume soon.

After reading S.J. Gould's Dinosaur in a Haystack while in transit to and from the beehive state, however, I started to reconsider what this blog is meant to be. Specifically, I am thinking of writing higher-quality essays less often than simply trying to feed this blog every weekday. This will be an experiment (Laelaps is, after all, a writing lab first and foremost), but I am hoping to get back to developing my writing and stop fretting over simply providing new content each day. Thank you for sticking with me during the transition.

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Brian, for what it's worth, I enjoy less frequent, in-depth essays compared to a more constant stream.

I tend to follow blogs that have about 2-3 posts/week simply due to the amount of time I can devote to reading online. But that's just me ... everyone is different.

Looking forward to more of your writing.