The Boidem started when questions of digitality, of being online, of our lives having substantial "virtual" components, were still rather novel. This novelty invited investigation, and I tried to do this in a manner that combined both the societal and the personal, I sought to examine what was happening not only to others, but to myself as well. Over the years at least a handful of times I expressed the feeling that these once novel phenomena had become such an integral part of our lives that there was no longer any need, or justification, for the Boidem. As such, it would be highly inaccurate to write that I suddenly missed a month. Numerous times over the past few years columns were written at close to the last minute. Sometimes I was "saved" by more or less stumbling onto a topic that I could sink my teeth into precisely when I thought that I'd run out of material. What was different this time was that I had material that I actually thought was interesting and worth writing about, but I couldn't sit myself down to actually do the writing.