Happy New Year

2005 is over and 2006 is here. I haven’t posted for a while and I have a decent excuse. My wife Amanda and I had our first child on December 15. His name is Liam and he is doing very well and we have all enjoyed our time together these past couple of weeks. I’m starting back to work on Tuesday while Amanda has the rest of the month off. Babies have a way of attracting lots of family and friends and it’s been real nice seeing everybody.

My web goals for the coming year? 1) Continue working on site construction methods using semantic-xhtml and CSS. 2) Find some time to start learning Ruby on Rails. The language itself may be a bit of a fad (I don’t know) but the concepts that have everybody excited about it will be helpful in lots of ways. 3) Finally acquire some respectable skills with Javascript. 4) Re-acquaint myself with Adobe’s software given their acquisition of Macromedia.