A lot has happened since the last time I wrote anything here.
I’ve moved into a new apartment, gotten a full time job, and helped the girlfriend move off to Mexico.
The new apartment is huge. It has like a bedroom. And a balcony. And there’s even like a dining room.
The new apartment follows the new job. The new job is the old job, but now with new and improved full time status. Ironically enough, my open-source using, Mac loving, freelancing self is now a Microsoft developer at Freightliner LLC. I’ve been learning some legacy tools (VB6 and ASP) and will be training in some .Net some time this year.
The girlfriend has moved to Guadalajara to finish out her schooling and possibly to work. This leaves me in my natural state — bachelorhood.
With all this change and rigamarole behind me, it’s time to get back to my regular weblog publishing.
With the new year I’m using a new web site tool, RapidWeaver from RealMac Software. One might characterize it as “sweet”
What’s that? Why am I using a software tool instead of rolling my own Web 2.0 Ruby On Rails blog tool?
It’s all part of a new leaf I’m turning.
See, RoR is all about Not Repeating Yourself. I’m down with that. I’m also trying to be more about Getting Things Done (thanks Tim!). I’ve started using the Delicious and the Backpackit.
The philosophy for 2006 is “Less is less”. See back in “the day” I would have demanded that I have ultimate control over my website design experience. Just like I used to refuse to use iPhoto and managed all my pictures manually. And like I used to manage all my digital music the same way.
That, in a word, is dumb. Computer software is always going to be better at organizing stuff than me. If for no other reason, my Mac isn’t going to get lazy, and forget to put something in the right folder.
So it’s all about letting go, embracing the framework, stop worrying, and learning to love the bomb.
By using a handy publishing tool, which is bought and paid for, I can just write and make photo galleries, instead of updating an xml site map with this and that and the other. Or cracking into Photoshop to create web thumbnails. That’s for people who like to waste time. Not me, no sir. I’ve got better things to do.
So around here I’ll be using a default template while I get my content updated…then I’ll tweak up a theme for RapidWeaver for my own use (and heck. maybe even publish it for others to use)
