It seems abcnews.com had the same idea (but probably long ago) to change the entire look of their site too. For me that’s going to take more getting used to than the new look of my own site.

Everything’s in need of an overhaul at some point – just to keep it fresh. In fact I got the idea of relocating my entire site and redoing the entire blog based on the fact that I was not at all happy with the old site. It was way too boring. The movement and adaptation of all the local web services was an afterthought. I’m much happier with the new look now that my template is pretty much done. And the speed seems to be much better as my site used to spend a lot of time waiting in line for the SQL server at totalchoicehosting.com. They received my cancellation notice today.

All of these applications and database are now running on my machine at home, serving this site to the web. No more web hosting ever again for me thanks to no-ip.com – dynamic DNS all the way from now on. Sorry Time Warner.

The WordPress template I’m using needs a lot of work but I’m just happy I got a new router, firewall, and this site up in under one day. Never again will I need to FTP files. My total cost for running this site is $45 a year including the domain registration.

Unfortunately I learned the hard way how bad spam can get if you put a legitimate email address on-line anywhere. Monster.com screen scraping killed my inbox at my old address.

So, this post is to declare the absence of any available email address on this site. You can contact me by leaving a reply at the bottom of this page if you need to get in touch and don’t know me well enough to have my cell number or gmail address.

I will use the email address you provide to post your comment to get back in touch. Thanks.

Update: You can now text the word INSIGHT to 50500 to receive my Contxt SMS business card.