Probing times [Microwave Bytes]

I frequently get asked whether I find myself running out of things to write about in this column. It\´s a very simple question to answer, yes I do. When I started writing Microwave Bytes over two years ago, it seemed that by the time I finished one submission, usually sometime late on the deadline date (fortunately extended by my European location), I already had an embryonic idea about what the next one might be about, but that luxury was rather short-lived. I rather think this must be much the same for "real" journalists who write regular (even daily, my gosh) columns, and I suspect we all essentially get bailed out at the 11th hour by the "deadline effect"; that is you sit in front of a keyboard and start typing something, with almost no forethought. The result, for me, is that one basically starts typing about whatever first enters your head, which usually relates to something you have been doing recently. So be it, and once again I find I can string something together. Long may it continue, I guess.