I realize that if anyone still visits on a semi-regular basis than you will have noticed that I am no longer keeping this blog up to date. I am writing my PhD and quite busy. I have moved and am enjoying my new surroundings. In fact I am so busy that I find myself less concerned with keeping an online diary, so to speak. I am applying for jobs (who isn't!), writing manuscripts and enjoying my new friends in the city. However, I do have some new ideas for my internet life and a few large projects in the works that require some heavy devotion.
My partner and I are throwing ourselves into another large site development this summer to compliment our other software as a service website, The Money Case. I don't want to divulge our plans, however in this economy I believe it will be highly successful and act in concert with our current projects.
I am also going to tie all of my personal sites and blogs together into a larger website that will act as my portfolio and online networking resume that can be both a showcase for my achievements and place for myself, my friends and family to interact in a slightly more intimate manner than a place like facebook, myspace or twitter. One of the only criticisms I ever hear today about the online environment and txt messaging is the that it allows people to get lazy about personal communication. To me, I imagine the space will be the beginnings of our family albums and hold heritage and family tree information, which has been collected from both my father and mother's side of the family by many dedicated members. I hope that it can bring people together and create opportunities for family re-unions. My partner, Shawn, has an enormous family and adding his family to ours as an addition to this will be soooo enriching, we may span the globe one day!
In closing this blog (yes, that is what is happening here) I will be removing much of the advertising. I will also post many of the old, previously un-posted material. I often write something and do not edit it with the intention of reading it later and clicking the big important "publish" button at the bottom of my back-end publishing interface software that blogger has created for me. Instead I will leave some posts for ages and never click the button. I don't know why. I can't even be the only one. Of all the bloggers out there, I imagine each blogger has about another 5% of un-posted blogs compared to their visible posted blogs. They just pile up in the unwritten blog ethos. Perhaps it's just like a big to-do list. There are always things that fall to the bottom of the priority list, and then over time they jsut become really unimportant. Every once in a while you look at that list and say "I am finally going to get to all of those things..."
So here I am, spring cleaning my blog to do - and it's the last thing I do before I close up shop. But I'll leave everything else here, in pristine condition for everyone to enjoy. Including myself. It's my first effort. Thanks for your time. I enjoyed the short run. The next run will be longer, however the next run will likely be devoted purely to websites. I enjoy that game - designing, the graphics and overall the more independent and self-sufficient nature of the website development game. I tip my hat to the hard-working bloggers and take my leave.
xo BD
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