Welcome back to me! I finally have removed the shackles of Yahoo Geocities. I’ve spent my 2 month hiatus from MP (Magnetic Poetry) searching for a new hosting service that will allow me ftp access to my own friggin’ website. Catalog.com is the winner! $35/year. That’s it! And I’ve got my snazzy new domain name ziprz.com. No more www.geocities.com/ziprz for me. Why did it take me, a self-proclaimed User Experience Guru (on my business card), so long to realize what every other real designer that graduated after me already knew. Geocities is for sissies and first year Marketing MBA’s who need to “Learn Web Design”. Shame on me for letting myself suck so bad. I’m going to spend less time learning the in’s and outs of my chosen design discipline, and learning how to be a dad, and I’m going to spend far more time figuring out how to have the most impressive personal website around. You just wait world! This site is best if used within 2 weeks of the date on the label.

Ivan sent me this link a while back when I was looking for some IA information. I thought I had lost some of these lists when I left Xerox. Nope, they still exist. And they’re listed in a wiki. Huh?

I’m not sure if it is possible for me to read through all of PeterMe’s blogs, but if I could, I’d be a far better designer. The guy designed epinions.com which really was my first foray into web community. Better than that though, Peter seems to be able to frequently converse about highly intellectual topics. I don’t know what my problem is, but the intellectual half of me gets hacked off somewhere between a client requirement like “It’s got to be easy to use”, and an internal process meeting where someone says “We need to train the sales people”. God, please give me my brain back! and thanks Peter for providing me with interesting thought topics on a daliy basis…

I had the pleasure of reading Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-customer by David Siegel. I forced myself to do it for the sake of a client that actually knows the guy. I found it to be pretty thought provoking. The book is the right kind of book for all of us designers that are reading way too many how to books, and not enough future vision books.

Momentous…I’ve now entered the world of blogging. Thanks to my cohorts Walt and Mark, I can now ramble incessently at the touch of a leftmousebutton. sweet.