Reconnecting

July 10, 2006 | 7 Comments

My mom’s been bugging me for an update. Here it is with a random sprinkling of miscellany.

(Hi mom.)

Home life

We’ve finally got all moved into our new home and are just about settled. We LOVE the place and feel extremely lucky to have landed such a beauty in such a nice area. Still, being a home owner means lots of work that seems a bit never-ending. Always something right? But it’s fun.

Django and The Blog

Work continues slowly on the new blog. Unfortunately I’m not sure how long it’s going to take and if I’ll ever see the other side. It’s not at the bottom of my list, but it’s not a priority either. I have been spending quite a bit of time thinking about and looking at Django as we’re thinking about it for some Blue Flavor projects.

The Flavor

Speaking of work…

Blue Flavor is going very well. We’ve been really busy of late and we’re going through a bit of a transitional phase right now on many levels. It’s left me exhausted to say the least, but hopefully we’ll have some help in house soon. A few tidbits:

• Things are going well on the client side. We’re really busy at the moment and have some great projects on going and/or wrapping up soon. Last week I did a mini-review of our first 9 or so months and was amazed to find that we have worked with over 20 different clients in our first year so far! Most of which have been excellent and have made getting off the ground much easier. A big thanks also needs to go to all the folks who’ve referred us work and provided references.
• We’re moving to a new office soon! Right now it’s looking like Fremont very close to both Adobe (one of our clients) and Google. We need the space and it’s long over due.
• We’re stepping up efforts on our Blue Flavored blog. We’ve been pretty lax with it and today decided to make it more of a priority. Head on over and check it out if you’ve not yet or grab the feed.
• Were finally almost ready to hire some full time employees. We’ve got a few folks we’re talking to and hopefully that’ll happen soon. We really, really need the help.
• Looks like Idea Day should be back soon. Here’s to hoping we can get Rushkoff back on board after a long delay searching for a new venue.

WebVisions

WebVisions is next week and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll be speaking on a panel with Mike Davidson, Bryan Veloso and Dan Cederholm. We’re going to be talking about Web design inspiration and the good, bad and ugly of Web design in 2006. Should be fun and educational.

RSS

Life’s been crazy and I’ve been out of the loop on quite a few things over the last year. In the last few weeks I’ve taken a few steps to reconnect with some things I’ve missed. The first, and probably biggest as far as my time goes, is I’ve started using RSS again. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve used a feedreader and while I’ve not exactly missed it (or for that matter missed anything all that important) it’s nice to have a small stream of content back. Any feeds you think I should subscribe to?

Reading

Been doing lots and lots of reading (out of a book) lately. Just finished up The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type which was a fairly easy read and loaded with terrific information. I’ve just started The Creative License in the hopes it’ll help motivate me to work in my sketch journal more.

On the fun side, tomorrow I’ll be picking up the 3rd book in Greg Keyes spectacular Kingdom of Thorn and Bone series, The Blood Knight. I’m looking forward to that.

More Fun

Been enjoying the following:

• Deadwood! Oh, I love that show.
• Lucky Louie. Another great comedy from HBO.
• Begin To Hope by Regina Spektor
• Hello Master by Priestess
• Dreamfall

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