In August of 2005, I complained that Jason Kottke had not delivered on a hinted return to 0sil8-like projects. There's only a month to go in Jason's year of living off the kindness of micropatrons, of which I am one, and so no such projects. I don't know if I'll contribute next month for another full year of support, since the incentive (the nice feeling I get) wore off after a while. At least with Daring Fireball I get something non-paying members don't get, i.e. full text RSS feeds, and at least Jason is aware of and expects “the inevitable drop-off in year-over-year contributions”.
As far as short link posts, he seemed to be a couple days behind my finding the links elsewhere more often than I'd like. (This coming, granted, from someone who links to del.icio.us almost all the links he points out that I click on.) As I mentioned in August, he changed the format, which made the links less compelling, and almost as a protest, my links are in his old style, that is, one link per post, with an optional one-sentence-or-so comment.
He also took weekends off. Everybody deserves a weekend off from their job, and maintaining his site was his job. But still, it made boring weekends that much more so.
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