There are only so many hours in a day, and unfortunately I still need quite a few hours sleep a night. Plus there’s a certain amount of effort I have to put in at work to justify the monthly pay check.

That leaves a limited amount of Jim time, and I’m quite an inquisitive chap; the list of things I’d like to try or investigate are huge.

In case you’re thinking ‘why is he wasting his precious time blogging’ - a/ I’m on a train so making use of lost time b/ the blogging experience is on my list, and c/ so are mobile devices so I’m trying the pda.

I bought a copy of .netmag and was initially thrilled by a relatively high concentration of new ideas and things to look / re-look into, but after 30 minutes the reality hit home - I haven’t got time to look into a fraction of this new stuff without dropping from my current todo list, and things are on that list for a reason - I want to do them.

So the noise filter switched on and I started skimming. What got ignored - ego trips,opinions, css tutorials, design hints, anything with the term ‘API’ init, basically a big chunk of the magazine.

What I realise is lighting my fire at the moment is varying methods of content delivery, and organisation, and management, which is probably why the bulk of Jim time at the moment is spent playing with blogging tools, templates, and xhtmlmp.