14 February 2005
Pleased to Meet You
When I first started working on the current site redesign, I wanted to expand the site and make it more of a complete profile, or at least a kind of ongoing snapshot of my life. As with most of my personal projects, it’s been hard in the face of work and the rest of my life to make it enough of a priority to realize… ahem… ideal results.
When I launched this design, I knew it wasn’t going to work to rely on journal entries alone. I knew I just didn’t have it in me to write with the frequency, intensity and depth that someone like Rob does. And I knew I didn’t want to keep posting little shrapnel nuggets of nothing just to keep the site alive when I didn’t have time to write something worthwhile. So I added a bunch of little things that I could update more easily and more often, and keep you distracted while I find time to write something. Now that I’m slowly sinking into a one-post-a-month routine, I had no idea it was going to get this bad.
One of the other things I realized after reading back through my own site was that I was clearly not interesting enough to keep this site interesting on my own. I needed find a way to make my friends (who are always more interesting than I am) part of the act. I toyed with the idea of letting my friends make their own posts to the journal, but then most of them got their own sites. So I came up with the loose idea of writing profiles of my friends and family and posting them in their own section. In keeping with the inconsistent verb usage on the site, I called it “Meet”, and slapped a “coming soon” sign on it.
Five months later, that “coming soon” was still staring me in the face and what started as a simple project that I was going to have done in a week or two is just getting started. For Valentines Day, I thought it would be a good time to formally introduce you to my sweetheart. So, without further ado, I’d like you to meet Laura Brunow.
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