jmoiron.net

I suppose this is it. I have finally somewhat crafted a "new version" of "the site". The old comments are all safe, but I haven't migrated them over to the new system yet. I'll get around to it sometime. They're enabled again, until the spam bots attack!

I've been writing this for quite a while, even though it doesn't seem like there is much to it. The back end is actually quite powerful and flexible, but I am having some speed issues that I think are due to CPU load from another site that I host.

I tried pretty hard with the design, and kinda stumbled upon it while wandering aimlessly. I wanted to be green, but I ended up looking like a lot of other django sites. I wanted to be somewhat web 2.0 ish, and for no reason at all, other than to be trendy. The 'idea' to lack a textual heading (besides the title, which will probably be changed at some point to be more contextual) was Wei's, and I kinda like it. It manages to be down to business without looking amature.

You might notice that the gallery doesn't lead anywhere right now. I'm working on something somewhat advanced for that, that will kinda tie into the fact that a lot of the pictures I share are during my travels. I have some lofty mashup's in mind, and with what I've done at work in the past I guess it's not out of the question that I actually complete them this time.

Last night, somewhat randomly, I went to see Palomar again at the last minute at the Bowery Ballroom. When I got back I realized once again that I wanted to write something, and that once again I was letting the fact that the new site was unfinished stop me. I had promised somewhat lightheartedly that it'd be up in early June, and this post misses the mark by about 36 minutes!