The new season of Life In Neutral is live. We are not starting the actual game until Monday, but everyone is rip-rearing to go. We have quite a few more players this time, but we’ll see how many last. You wouldn’t think 90 days was much of a commitment, but some people just can’t handle it. Hopefully everyone will stick it out and it will just continue to grow. It’s a pretty simple concept and can be fun keeping tabs on everyones’ progress.

Come check it out and comment as you see fit: Life In Neutral

I updated my calendar plugin  the other day and just noticed that the styling is all screwed up. Darn! I’ll take a look at it this weekend and try to get some more items tightened up on this here website.

I really need to plan some type of update schedule to keep things current, but I find it hard sometimes to post on the website. Not that things aren’t going on in my life, but just stuff that would mean anything to everyone else. I would rather post nothing, then post random dribble just to say I have a website.

Kinda like I’m doing right now. Darn!

Came across this website today and I love it. I used to be an Illustrator junkie but haven’t had the opportunity to play in it as much as I used to. That’s just an excuse because I’m sure I can make time, it just never works out that way. Until I can get back to the glory days of making adorable characters all afternoon, why not swing over there and check out some great work?

Blood, Sweat, Vector

Found this website today and I have to say it’s pretty cool. Just a bunch of musical and random clips from YouTube all in the key of B Flat. I played around with it for a few minutes and it sounded pretty good. Very ambient sounding, but all in all, it’s damn clever.

http://inbflat.net/

The first stage of the new design is in place. I often have a habit of being too picky with my personal work. I will work on them for awhile,  get bored and start over before it ever sees the light of day. I didn’t want that to happen this time, so I’m trying something new. I’m actually launching the design before it’s done.

This will allow me to wrap up the details as I go instead of forcing myself to accomplish everything before launch. It’s not something I ever do with client work, but personal work is always a little different. There are many, many things I want to add and adjust, but I wanted to get this design up and live before it was in the trash.

This will be my first time working with Wordpress as well. There are a multitude of options and plugins at my disposal so I expect things to change quite often for awhile. Over the past 4 years, I’ve been pretty spoiled at my job. We have a proprietary system that uses a great template engine, so I don’t have to wade through much PHP to get my designs in place. Since Wordpress doesn’t use the same method, I’m back to being forced to integrating the HTML along with the PHP. This isn’t something I’m incapable of doing, just not something I’m fond of.

I’m sure there will be errors, or even missing pages, and if you notice anything shoot me an email and let me know. Otherwise, stay tuned for more content and hopefully great things!