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The excuses: work's been crazy busy. CRAZY busy. The first part of the biggest project of the year rolled out on Wednesday, so things have been settling down. I love the Web and making Web stuff, but after 9 or 10 hours of mental and creative exertion, I get home and am often too zonked out to work on some of the side projects I'm committed to - never mind dredging up the creative juices to write a semi-coherent post worth your time, O gentle reader.
("O gentle reader?" Did I really just say that?)
(Did I really just post a parenthetical statement?)
What side projects you ask? For starters, trying to whip up a usable CMS for GraceAlive.net, which is really a bigger undertaking than I realized at first. What I've got built is quite a bit more ambitious than anything I've ever done on my own (MySQL, PHP, and a smidgen of Ajax a la Prototype), but there's still quite a ways to go. Hope to have a write-up on this site sometime soon.
Then there's Grace Valley Christian Academy, which was a pretty fun undertaking. All sorts of CSS and semantic markup goodness in there.
There's one other site for my church still in the works, and I've stalled the comprehensive redesign of my site till I get that out. Some of you already know a little bit about that, since I included you in some preliminary brand research a couple months back.
Other than that — I'm not particularly inclined to spend an awful lot of time in front of the computer when I get home, and when I am, I'm usually browsing the popular page at del.icio.us or trying to find new music.
By the way, if you like Coldplay and live in the US, Embrace is quite possibly the greatest band you've never heard of. Their album Out of Nothing plays like a "Greatest Hits" album, with just about every song having an anthemic quality to it. No wonder it hit No. 1 on the UK charts.
Speaking of anthems, "Civilian Affairs" from Cross Movement's album Higher Definition is about as close as you'll get to a Christian rap anthem.
And now I'm just being random. Good night.
Hey.....I know who that other "blurred" out AIM is (I can still make it out) :)
It's not blurred out well enough, then. :)
Well, I can only think of two people beside myself who'd figure out what it says. ;)