Blog posts? We don't need no stinkin' blog posts!

I'm going to carry on crying off on proper entries for another week or so; this is conference season, which means lots of preparation for presentations and also lots of "networking" (read: drinking lots of complimentary wine) - which cuts down on blog time. I normally hate reading other people's blog entries when they're just excuses for light content ("I have a cold and can't blog properly today..."), but feel strangely compelled to do the same thing myself. I suppose that should make me more charitably inclined towards the excuse-makers in future, but I suspect it won't. I don't do charity.