This week has seen "summer temperatures" start up again. By that, I mean blazing hot sunshine, producing temperatures of over 90ºF for the next four months, with little or no rain.

Those of you reading this on the East Coast, or in Europe, may be thinking that such hot sunny weather sounds idyllic, but you'd be wrong. It's hard work. Only folks in "the south" have it harder, as they have the same hot weather, only with 110% humidity.

That's Mr Procrastination, to you
Last year, I got asked to write an article for Denver's 5280 Magazine. Like most software developers, I wrote 90% of it, then cancelled the project. OK, so maybe I just wasn't happy with what I wrote.

This is hardly surprising given the brief I had. The brief was, "Write something no more than 800 words". Yes, it was that detailed. You'd think, wouldn't you, that for someone who routinely churns out 800+ words a day on this site, I'd have no problem coming up with something, especially when the subject matter was up to me.

Today, I've re-opened the document, and have been editing it a bit. To be honest, it has never "flowed". That's the thing about writing a column (this includes my DMfM writing), sometimes the words just flow out you, other times they have to be extracted like a particularly stubborn wisdom tooth.

Hmm, this gives me another idea. Why not, instead of the "Hello chaps I'm British and I live in Denver, what-ho!" BS i've been struggling with, why not write about blogging? It's the perfect opportunity to promote this site, and get paid for doing it. By George old bean! That's so opportunistic and money-making, I almost sound American!

OK. I'm teasing. You should be used to this by now.