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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

For a good length of time now, despite my best efforts to ignore it, my interest in programming and websites have diminished. I still program and am active, though seem to much more often go in phases where I don't want to code. And website related I have no "active sites" - I thought getting down to the few ones would get my interest back, so I wouldn't feel overwhelmed updating 8 sites or however many I had.

It just kind of hit me tonight. Instead I choose to play a computer game, watch tv or what I always hate - mindleslly surfing the web. (and mostly refreshing forums for new posts after a minute or two) I should say, my interest is still there, but my motivation isn't. And even if my interest is there, it's definitely not as much as it used to be. It actually was a worry of mine when I started out, especially with PHP, I though I might end up getting burned out.

Although I'm not sure really what to do. My plan has been to launch the adaptcms 2.0 beta and the new adaptcms.com website (done, albeit 6 months later than expected) and then re-launch Insane Visions along with adaptcms 2.0. But if I can't keep iv updated, the $100 sunk in a new design will basically be going to waste. Unfortunately too I've kind of been shrinking my online presense - I spend the same amount of time as always (a LOT), but fewer sites and doing less. (hardly post in forums or talk to people on messengers)

The internet is still very important to me and it's something that I will always be interested in but it's almost as if a shift is happening, but I'm not sure what. If I simply work on a script and a website with the occasional blog - that would be ideal for me, it wouldn't be a ton of work (and thats the idea - adaptcms/adaptbb.com would grab news from iv, which is the main site, adaptsoftware would do the same and this blog). But trying to motivate myself to post a blog every few days and even just post something on IV once a week (probably 10 minutes for a blog, 20 minutes for IV), but even that I don't do lately.

Have to think of what else to try. I've tried doing different kinds of stuff web wise but it hasn't helped. Hopefully I can get the interest back soon.