Many apologies for not writing for many, many days. Yes, I know — many of you are probably well past withdrawal thanks to my electronic absence. Sadly, a number of factors have caught up with me over the past week and a bit, namely, the following:

• being on-call a lot at the hospital, and being called in. “Home call” — faugh!
• contending with a summer cold that my son gave me (and my wife, and my wife’s mother, and my wife’s mother’s mother. Thanks Ian!
• … and a presentation that I had to give yesterday that took much, *MUCH* longer to prepare than I had anticipated [it had to do with the association between proton-pump inhibitors -- like nexium, for example -- and hip fractures if you must know]

At any rate, thanks to everyone for sticking around, and a few other miscellaneous thank-you’s that are outstanding, namely:

• Patrick Gavin at Text-Link-Ads who continues to sponsor this blog
• Curtis Sund over at FindInternetTV — who incidentally figured out the CSS hiccup that was causing DJI’s theme to not display correctly in MSIE7 (but not 6, or 5, or Safari, or FF or anything else)
• Chris over at GeekFitters.com. Who is Chris, you might ask? Well, he’s the guy behind GeekFitters, which is an online concern which outfits geeks in t-shirts [translation: its a t-shirt company].

Anyway, being a bit of a geek requiring outfitting, Chris sent me a few shirts to try out earlier this month. One day soon I’ll post a picture of me in one of them. Nevertheless, the service was fast, friendly, and the t-shirts themselves are actually quite nice. Specifically, the “Vintage cut” is actually a nice fitted t-shirt. Its not loose and billowy, and the cotton has a nice feel. Its a bit of a lighter weight, so its ideal for summer. Of course, the graphic on the front is a bit cheeky — and I chose the one that said “I put the STUD in STUDY”. Which would be apropos given that my royal college exams will be coming up in the new year, and I will in fact be studying like a banshee (if banshees were to study real hard). If I had any complaints it would be to give the actual site and shopping cart a bit of a make over — it looks a bit long in the tooth, shall we say.

In other news around people in blogging that I may have missed there are two things of note:

1. Jason Kaneshiro has joined the BlogHerald, joining a stellar cast of bloggers already. Who’s Jason? You might know him already from his own blog Webomatica. Jason will be dishing thoughts and things he’s learned from blogging a la “Blogging 101″ every Wednesday. Jason’s been on my radar for a long time, so check it out! (and his blog, if you’re not already doing so!)

2. Aiden Aidan Henry of Mapping the Web got a regular gig over at Read/Write Web. Aiden Aidan is another blogger — and Canadian, naturally — that I’ve been keeping my eye on, at his own blog Mapping The Web, which has a nice web2.0 focus. Congratulations to Aiden Aidan, as I understand he fought tooth and nail through 4 rounds of interviews, applications, and actual, real, physical combat to secure his position. That Richard MacManus throws one helluva round-house, I hear. :)

Anyway, I should be back to blogging over the next week — thanks everyone for their patience.