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As some of you may have heard, Wired<\/em> magazine is suggesting that the age of the blog may\u00a0already be over<\/a>.\u00a0 And the level of activity here over the past couple of weeks may have lent credence to that supposition.<\/p>\n

Full service will be resumed soon – it just seems like S\u00f8<\/span>ren, David and I are all, coincidentally, a bit overrun with other stuff at the moment.\u00a0 Rest assured that the urge to blather on publicly is welling up all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As some of you may have heard, Wired magazine is suggesting that the age of the blog may\u00a0already be over.\u00a0 And the level of activity here over the past couple of weeks may have lent credence to that supposition. Full service will be resumed soon – it just seems like S\u00f8ren, David and I are […]<\/p>\n

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