I realize it's been an awfully long time since I've posted anything o­n TechJapan, so my sincere apologies go to all of our avid readers who have been waiting (apparently there are 501 people still subscribed, says FeedBurner). I guess most of the audience has already moved o­n.

Basically, I came to Japan in January 2008 and have been working since. I don't think I really have time to manage the site, at least in its prior format, while working. That's not to mention that I haven't really been using the internet much, or even paying a whole lot of attention to consumer electronics news.

So needless to say, my priorities have shifted significantly. I launched this site during my freshman year of college, back when I had heaps of free time. If I get free time now I usually drink, (try to) play golf, or go somewhere I've never been before. Translating a news article about yet another DVD player with MP3 capabilities isn't so high o­n my list these days.

But that isn't to say we'll never be back again. There's a reason I still pay the $120 a year to keep this site here. What's the reason? Well, o­ne day I'd like to start a company of my own, so perhaps this is my final hideout of entrepreneurial spirit. Oh, PSP-Vault, that spin-off site I started, I sold for a decent sum of money that remains in my bank account today (putting it in the market didn't seem like a great idea at the time).

Therefore I'll just throw this out here in case anyone is listening -- what would YOU like to see TechJapan become? Stick with news? Add more business-y analysis? More columns/features rather than straight-up translation? Now that I'm actually in Japan it's theoretically easier for me to be where the action is, so to speak. A shop? I can walk to Akihabara in about 10 minutes from my apartment, in fact it's closer than my office.

Of course even those options all assume we stick to our Japan technology focus. Just because the URL is "www.techjapan.com" doesn't mean we have to talk about that. Maybe I can turn this into a blog where I instead talk about whisky made with ice from Antarctica, girls at car shows, and similar gaijin subjects?

Unfortunately the comments module o­n this site seems to have broken, and I'm definitely too lazy to fix it. So if you have a response, please just send it to zmcnulty@techjapan.com. Thanks!

Oh, and since a few people have asked...www.techjapan.com is not for sale.