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Missing in action might have been a more appropriate title, but most of what I've been doing away from the blogosphere is leading, I hope, to a well-earned academic title, among other things (fame and fortune, to name but two of the least).

Phased Acquisition Theory has turned out to be but a drop in the bucket of Differential Aquisition Theory, my current unified theory of language acquisition, inspired by reading in cosmology, evolution and computer programming and bolstered by reading in theories of language acquisition and theories of learning. Naturally, working out the theory, its hypotheses and potential research topics has taken a lot of my time.

Even more time-consuming has been the seminal phase of LIDbIT (Language Item Database of Integrated Tables), Multilist (Multiple Source Wordlist), a composite of wordlists from something like a dozen online and print sources. Got to View/Wordlists to take a boo.

I've also been developing this site, one of a complex of spajes, or student, professional and academic journals. The platform is Drupal and one of the kicks is setting up various content types to cover the range of contributions users might someday make. Another challenge is figuring out how to collect all of a single user's contributions to one view for feeding to other sites. At the moment I have My Blog and Subsites, but the blog module is not configurable and the Mysite module does not access user-generated content types. As far as I can tell, user-specific views are not yet creatable.