Great Decs&Excspectations

"200 million people have already stopped writing . . . blogs" but, three and a half years on, I refuse to succumb to the peer pressure.  Some housekeeping and such for the turn of the year:

• A New Year's Resolution

The level of posting on Decs&Excs has been down in 2006 from what I would have wished.  I have high hopes and good intentions toward correcting that situation in 2007 and toward offering more frequent and more useful/interesting posts on matters insurance-related, California-law-related, and California-insurance-law-related. 

• An Expression of Year-End Thanks

Most of the traffic to this weblog is generated by search engines and every reader is welcome, but I am particularly and perpetually grateful to those few readers who come here on purpose or who link here from their own weblogs and send readers in this direction.  Most of those referring weblogs are listed in the sidebar and I commend to the attention of any other reader who may not already be familiar with them.

• A Simplified URL

With a little bit of nail biting as I waited for the new settings to take hold, I have succeeded in setting things up such that this weblog can now be reached through www.declarationsandexclusions.com, without the necessity of using the old and lengthy (but still efficacious) TypePad URL.

• Coming Soon

To begin the New Year: John Garamendi remains Insurance Commissioner of California for another week, until January 7 when he is to be sworn in to the meaningless office of Lieutenant Governor.  He has left behind a number of unwelcome parting gifts for the insurance industry, and I will be taking a looking at some of them at the beginning of next week. 

• Coming a Little Bit Later

Also in 2007: Mark the calendar now for Monday, April 2, when Decs&Excs will again host an edition of Blawg Review.

[Photo by biewoef (Hilde Vanstraelen, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium) via stock.xchng.]