Yes, modern work life stinks! But we will not give up our blogs until you pry our keyboards from our cold dead fingers.

Your wife is lovely. I would have highlighted it, but then had to explain the huge disparity in your looks and nature.

Let’s just hope the little one favors his/her mother!

It’s Matt.

Dinner was suberb. Salmon flawless. Asparagus perfecly cooked. And thanks for the baby clothes (they don’t fit me, but hopefully will my in utero offspring).

Re: my reaction to bloggers.

You make a good point about the headline being a key reason why the article engendered so much respone (by the way, a lot of the response was very positive. In fact, the creators of the video above wrote me a note telling me they felt it was great journalism and that they couldn’t help but mock it anyway…)

As to the headline — which i did not write — “blog till they DROP” does not necessarily imply they blog until they die. “Drop” can mean exhaustion, and falling asleep at computers, and burnout, all of which I found in my reporting. More broadly, I believe, and my reporting bears out, that the 24/87 global information economy creates stress for the piecemeal workers who support it. ‘Nuff said; the article speaks for itself. (and I did have the impression that you and Om — Malik, who joined us at dinner — found the article fairly highlighted a trend about modern worklife).

Regardless, my main issue with your posting is that you failed completely to describe my wife as “lovely.” Your credibility is shot, sister.

mr