It’s amaz­ing how quickly the excite­ment of a fresh idea can lose it’s lus­tre after just a few weeks. Take for instance my grand plan to rev­o­lu­tionise New Years Res­o­lu­tions for­ever. (Well mine anyway).

The orig­i­nal plan was to, at the end of the month, write a blog post about one expe­ri­ence or event that hap­pened in the past 30 odd days. I thought it was an inter­est­ing idea, but when one of the things I want to focus on in 2010 is improv­ing my writ­ing (both in vol­ume and qual­ity), then once a month just isn’t going to cut it. In my notes I’ve only man­aged to scrounge up 9 events any­way, so I’d already failed before I began.

Get­ting back to the New Years Res­o­lu­tions, it seemed like last year I’d just thought up a bunch of things to pass the time with­out putting any thought into the why. Why was I doing each res­o­lu­tion? What would I get out of them?

I guess this was the other prob­lem I had with ‘the grand plan’.

Then there’s the infa­mous Things To Do Before I Die list. Real­is­ti­cally is should be a list of things I can only do at cer­tain points in my life. Like punch­ing an octo­ge­nar­ian in the solar plexus with­out feel­ing shame. I think I might retire it, or at least take it down from this website.

What to do with this blog then?

I should always be updat­ing it. Whether it’s a link dump, image or a 500 word micro-epic about the joys of CSS3 (and there are many joys to behold). Doesn’t mat­ter as long as the site is  kept pumping.

The comic reviews were always pop­u­lar, so my site sta­tis­tics say,but I just couldn’t keep churn­ing them out. Not when I wasn’t putting any­thing back out there for review myself. It just didn’t seem right. Why should I pub­licly crit­i­cise other people’s hard work  when I wasn’t will­ing to bare my own work to the world?

I really don’t like the look of the site and I think thats one rea­son I’ve stayed away. The design was dated back when it launched and just looks eye-bleedingly hor­ri­ble now. I’m going to redesign the site with an aim of mak­ing it infi­nitely eas­ier to read. I’ve been immersed in the User Expe­ri­ence field for the last 2 years, so there’s no excuse for why this site still looks and behaves like it does.

I know I keep mak­ing promises that I don’t return to for weeks at a time, but this is really impor­tant to me. Hav­ing said that you prob­a­bly won’t hear back about the redesign for a few weeks, but rest assured that I’ll keep updat­ing this site regardless.

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