A Happy Turn of Events

Well, after two surprisingly short weeks of online tech screens, late night and early morning interviews, and getting run through the technical ringer by some of the brightest people I've had the pleasure of being run through the ringer by... I have officially accepted a position with the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

I'll be working on standards based XHTML, CSS, and every other technology I can either get my hands on, or con someone into teaching me. It is going to be a great opportunity for me to work in a team with other people who seem very passionate about the same things I am. And more importantly, a great opportunity to learn some new tricks.

HeadWeight Design also has some very interesting projects in the works, and I am hoping to have some new stuff to put on display rather shortly.

The Power of the Blog

I have been pondering what to write about for the last few days. I updated the CSS for this site, setup FTP publishing, added new content, and revised old content. Then I got hit with writer's block. Isn't that how it always works? Ah well, better writer's block than designer's block I suppose.

This morning I went to check the site stats on Google Analytics, and I'm looking at hits coming from all over the world. This is a new occurance, and it pleases me. The best part is, they're looking at all the pages rather than just index.html.

I stopped to ponder what it was that caused this revolution of traffic to my "just recently budding" blog. Could it be the nifty new header image complete with pirate ship AND non-specific location of "internet booty"? Doubtful. I noticed that a hefty percentage of my traffic is coming from www.zeldman.com. I made a couple of comments on his blog a day or so ago, and apparently, when the whole sum of bloggers say "the comment is the lifeblood of the blogosphere", they REALLY mean it. Granted, I'm new at this whole blogging thing, but I think it would be in my best interests to keep it up.