Picking up the Rhythm

Published in General on Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Notes from the break, posting should be back to normal over the weekend.

Well, the straw that broke the camel's back was Google updating it's PR values on the toolbars (propagating now-ish). It is definitely time to post. There are kids being born (congrats!), success being realized (congrats Scrivs, on that and the win!) and just too many things happening to stay quiet any longer.

Getting it done?

Big plans were laid out for this blog during the break, and truth is big things are happening. I'm not going into all of the details, but a hint of one thing may be that I need a name for the current design of this site: any ideas? Things are likely to roll out here slowly, but the time has come to resume posting. Lets hope people are still reading...

Comments and Feedback

And about time too. Get your lazee ass back into gear Mike! ;-)

How about fiftyfoureleven classic edition? I have been giving mine version numbers, but I never did a proper archive (shame on me).

Haha! Classic seems good, I had thought that was a good one myself. This site *is* a little fade-ish, isn't it?

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