So the last year I've learned what it is like to be bullied. It's not fun, I won't go into particulars, but the base idea is that a group of neighborhood women decided to begin bullying my wife and kids two years back. We've been in and out court quite a few times this last year, but I think there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel.

I've put together a blog detailing what happened and I want to turn it into a resource for others in a similar circumstance. We have our home up for sale and hope to move to a new area soon. After we move and I clean up the blog postings currently on it, I'll post the link to the blog and make it public.

The fact that I feel good enough to begin posting again is a good sign. I even had to take a break from InfoQ to focus for a while so I could get my home ready to sell. When I say ready to sell, I mean prepare it such that another family can simply move into our home. My wife is a real estate agent and so she wants the home to be as close to perfect as possible.

What stimulated me was the interview Floyd did with Erik Meijers on LINQ this past November, (he posted it last week). Of course, lately I did help with two case studies on .NET/J2EE interop, but thankfully Floyd did the news postings for those while I just did editorial work. There is one on SOA at Safeco and another one on Lawson and their use of WPF as a front-end on S3.

Heck, next week I'm going to even do an interview of my new boss on our ISV initiatives for 2008 to post on Channel 9. It seems Gartner and others think IBM is much better about broadcasting the work they do in their Partner ISV Community than we do. I have a different take, I think we do so much the signal to noise ratio has become diluted over the last 7 years.

It feels good to get back into the old groove.

-james