I think its about time to move the site to WordPress. I cant customize EVERYTHING in wordpress, but Id comfortable with the 99% that I can edit. Anyone with a firm grip of css and php can do just about anything and a huge devloper community is constantly creating new applets that continue to amaze me. Contunue Reading

2009 should have been the year when the world would move away from IE6. Sadly though, it doesnt look to be the case. IE6 still has enough market share on most sites that we dont want to discount them because they cannot access the content we are providing, but the sad reality is: when you are using a two generation dated browser you cannot except to see all the new toys… Contunue Reading

Since December 20th Ive seen a nearly 40% drop in traffic on this blog versus the same time period in November.  Everyone expects a drop off after the holiday season with people resting and recovering from the hustle and bustle, but this is the first time I’ve seen it so massive.

This has left me thinking whether my recent divergence from strictly technical matters has annoyed or put off my everyday readers. However, we do not exist within a bubble and I’m going to include matters of importance to my trade, community, and values in with other code and tech related topics. I don’t think it makes any sense to examine one without an occasional glance to the other.

About 3:45pm yesterday I was once again a free man. Was I happy about losing my job to a failed economy? Of course not, but being totally self employed again is sort of an unexpected pleasure. I’ve cut myself from bartending as well so this is the first time I’ve not had a job of some sort besides working for myself since I was 14. Sort of feels like I’m on vacation; which might be called ironic because I never took one while I was working at Fathom.

So how am I going to make bills?
Same way I always have:  web design and hopefully this blog will help a bit too. I’ll have to clean it up, and do something to generate some capitol from it. I’m not paying for college with it (actually I am) but anything I can get at the moment would be great. Might also take up tattooing again on the side for my fun job. I still have my equipment and I get requests all the time. There I go again, adding in more and more… at the start of this blog I was unemployed – now I’ve got shit to do again.

To all my faithful readers, thank you.
According to analytics I see a few more than 1,200 a month. Not too shabby.
If any of you happen to work at really cool design firms, in any country – Im talking applications and am willing to relocate – the time seems about right for that.

In the meanwhile, Thank you Fathom and everyone there I learned a lot in my brief stay. Best of luck to us all in these hard times.