>I can understand you have your commitments and when Abilon does not have any thing to show in your feed, it gets a bit disappointing, guess that is the disadvantage of writing good blogs, people become more expectant of you <g>, but keep up the good work.

I know, I've felt bad about that. There were decisions to be made with the upcoming Southwest Fox conference. I decided that the conference and blowing a few minds during my sessions was the higher priority for the moment. I really want to see a resurgence in conference attendance, and among other things, that means that the quality and quantity of the information that is presented at a conference needs to be quite high. I will be ramping up the entries on the SPS Weblog in the very near future and hopefully no lasting damage has been done by the recent neglect.

>Wishing you all the best in all your endeavours. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any, whatever, help. If you have a trip to India let me know maybe I can help to arrange things here for you, and if you have the time I would be glad to meet you in person.

Thank you for your wishes and for your generous offer of help. I have always thought it would be cool to see India, especially with all of the technology going on over there. The IT schools there are among the very best anywhere in the world.

>Thanks for your personal response to my post. I can understand you are busy and I greatly appreciate your personal response.

Whenever possible I attempt to respond to the individual poster (though sometimes I am just too strapped for time). Given that they are taking time out of their busy day to congratulate me and/or wish me well, it is the least I can do.