lame excuses for not liveblogging

I admit it; I pretty much ditched y’all yesterday afternoon, virtually speaking — I had every intention of liveblogging Colleague Coyne’s appearance at the Manning Centre Networking Conference, at which he delivered what was, in my admittedly somewhat biased opinion, a brilliant performance as part of a three-way panel discussion on the conservative (note the small-c) response to the economic downturn.