2010 – The Year We Make Updates

It’s been a little over a year since this site has seen an update, and at least two years since I made any significant modifications to the overall site.

That’s all about to change, but first a few updates.

Since I last posted a few things have happened.

I went to a wonderful wedding in the French alps for my cousin Nicolas.

I attended WWDC 2009.

I graduated from the University of Tennessee.

I got a job working for the University of Tennessee Libraries.

I turned down a job in Washington, D.C.

I attended WWDC 2010.

All the while, I’ve been working on and building some pretty cool things.

Some other more personal changes happened too, but odds are if you’re reading this you either already know about those or you don’t need to know. Just as my life has undergone some pretty big changes and transitions, so will this site. While this design, layout and structure was all well and good for 2007 when it first went online in this form, a lot of things have changed including my needs and tastes. Probabilitytree.com and the various other personal domains that redirect to it will become more of a personal landing page for me and the things I do. I’ll still blog, but hopefully more frequently than I have with this WordPress blog. I haven’t completely decided if I’ll stick it out and try WordPress 3.0 on a more regular basis, switch over to Tumblr, or just cook up something in Django.

Realistically, I have a certain philosophy when it comes to personal projects. Be it my day-to-day computer, phone, or website, I don’t want to have to think about it too much. I want to be able to hop in, make a change, do some work, respond to something and move on. While I love coding in Django and as much as I feel I could do with my own site, I’d rather get something together that works, looks good, feels good and gets out of the way. I get paid to code during the day, and as much I love to code at night, there are other things I’d like to work on besides my own website.

Thanks for keeping up with me, even through the silence, still the best place to follow my regularly is on Twitter, but expect some more long form ranting in the near future.