Well, it’s been quite a week.

First of all my MacBook Pro has decided to play silly buggers and it keeps crashing over and over again, so that’s in the Apple shop for repair.

And just to keep on the crashing theme, I’ve only gone and smashed my car into the back of a Volkswagen Passat on the motorway yesterday, so that’s also in the shop for repair.

Oh well, you can either get annoyed, upset and angry at the world about these things, or you can look at the positives and think about how much worse it could be.

The positives in this situation is that I’ve borrowed an old MacBook Air for the time being, so not too bad really on the computer front. Although I’m missing all my files, programs, data and bookmarks it’s not too bad a swap for the time being.

As far as positives on the car scenario, I should hopefully have it back in a few days time with the bonnet looking like it should do (and not bent in half like it is at the moment), and of course the major plus point is that I’m still walking and talking and have no injuries.

Another positive for this week is that it’s my son’s 7th birthday tomorrow, so it’ll be a fine end to an otherwise eventful week.

Here’s hoping next week brings less drama, and more fixed devices and motors

Stay safe, be lucky.

Jon Dean

Well it’s been a busy, busy, busy year so far, and looking back at my last blog post tells me that I’ve already not met one of my aims.

You see, I said that this year I have a plan to do a few things: keep on learning, lose some weight, learn to unplug and publish more.

I’m happy to report that I’m on track for a nearly all of those things, but the publishing more has completely gone out of the window.

In fact the last post was on 6th January, so not only am I not publishing more, I’m actually publishing less than I did last year.

Don’t be fooled tho!

The lack of publishing is actually down to my success in the other plans I made, and the progress there has been ace.

I’ve lost a good 2 stone in weight, so I’m half way on my plan to be 4 stone lighter by next New Year. I’ve been learning a ton of new stuff and am in the middle of coding 2 apps (both for personal use, not sure if I’m even going to release them), and I’m unplugging and spending way more time with my family.

I really do wan’t to publish more tho, and I’ve been thinking about change and getting on the move.

I’m actually talking both literally and figuratively, because I’m selling my house and moving the family to a new home, and I’m thinking of starting the blog all over again on a new domain with a fresh and clean theme.

Sometimes it’s good to just get a fresh start, and I’ve been thinking about wiping the slate clean for a while and am now ready to take the plunge.

So, over the summer I’m going to drag myself into 2011 and create a nice lean HTML5 / CSS3 theme and kill this blog off, and I’m going to start posting more of my mindless drivel on my other domain jondean.co.

I might even create a separate stylesheet for IE6 users which serves the content to look like the MS-DOS command line (hey, if you’re going to use a browser from yesteryear then be prepared for my sarcastic attitude to luddites )

You’ll notice I just said that I’m moving domains, and this is for a few reasons.

First of all I want to test the .co domain over the course of a year to see where it can get to in the search results by just publishing regular content and not actually doing any major backlinking.

The second reason is to see how all the new Google author stuff is going to work with a fresh domain, and if the content on my new domain starts outranking the content on my old domain.

Think of it as an extended test to see how the new changes fare against an established site.

Also, it might give me both domains in the top 10, so all roads leading back to me sounds like a nice plan

So there you have it, my bi-annual update!

Hopefully I’ll pull my finger out and publish more, and on the new blog I’ll most likely be putting out snippets on things I find interesting and problems I’ve hit with coding the apps, along with some random pictures of the family and have it all laced with my sarcastic dry wit.

Jon Dean

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