I’m sorry I have neglected you so over the past several weeks. I am beginning to work on a number of exciting projects which will be detailed in this post. First, I am working on my first ever professional design job. When the job is completed, I plan to post a link to it here. Second, I am trying to learn Django as it will facilitate the next two projects I will describe. Third, I will be developing and designing a blog which will review audio and video podcasts. My final and most ambitious project is a site I have mentioned here before. Wheresitmade.org (my ethical consumerism social site) has struggled in the past with the limitations of various CMSs. I believe with Django I will finally be able to give it life as I have envisioned.

If you are interested in collaborating with me, drop me a line via e-mail or in the comments of this post.

I am auditioning a new comment system for the blog. It adds a really cool social aspect to the comments along with a feature that should have been included with WordPress from the beginning: comment threading! We’ll see how it works over the next few days. It may make things look a little strange. As yet, there is no way to migrate existing comments. Rather than lose them, I kept the old comment system on those pages with comments. Other pages will employ the new system. The comment count (next to the story title) is also different from old to new which will cause the homepage to look a little touched until all the stories there are using the new system. I hope it’s worth the minor issues. Let me know what you think.

Please take note of the new feature in the sidebar. It’s called Hot Stuff. I surf a lot of feeds daily, and Hot stuff will contain the coolest articles culled from those feeds. Check it out. The content will change pretty frequently.