I’ve been collaborating with SharpSushi on a new website for me. It’s not an overly ambitious new site- the designs are very different to the old site and we’re doing some real UI work to make the site not only a bit more lively on the landing page, but also seek to market what I do and what I offer in a better way. How? Keep coming back people!
Some notes:

• Changing over from Blogger to WordPress. Thanks Blogger, but it’s time. Yes, there will be teething/transfer issues, but I feel WordPress offers features and plugins that Blogger just can’t match. It also means I am not beholden to Blogger. WordPress could run my site for the next 20 years.
• The site landing page will offer content rather than my current “just freakin’ links” page.
• On occasions I will offer a podcast featuring off-topic content developed for CarAdvice podcasts. The WP Plugins will service this new content offering.
• Changing over my GoDaddy accounts to use WP has been a pain at times. The Power of Twitter assisted the process when I bitched about GoDaddy’s terribly messy website. They replied. In the I called their tech support and found out to host WP on windows you need IIS7 and I was on IIS6. Find that on the website if you can…?
• I hardly use any bandwidth or cloud space as allocated by GoDaddy, so offering podcasts won’t cost me anything more.
• I’m finally working out how to get my content to syndicate elsewhere- not from a tech perspective, but from a social perspective. I recently turned off FriendFeed to Facebook as I was almost spamming FB people.

The new site will go into beta shortly and fully launch in a matter of weeks.

Thanks to Lord Hayden for the early designs.

I’ve joined Rach, JimBob, Carl and Mikey with a new years weight loss resolution.

we’re trying to walk 10k a day. Its pretty tough. The updates are in my right hand column and here:

Here it is- in place of an actual blog post, I just grabbed the Nikon Coolpix (which adds an annoying tap tap noise for unknown reasons- excuse me!) to film this…

Following up my boring 1st post about the baby, here are some overly pixellated-only-a-father-could-love scans of junior from this morning.

We saw wriggly little feet and hands. Was awesome!

158 days to go