Time for my next piece of news! Yesterday I told you about Lauren‘s new project, Send Me An Instant Photo. Today, it’s my turn. I have started a new blog: ink.

ink. is going to be my home away from home for anything creative. imnotpete will be returning to mostly-technical posts relating to my work as a software engineer, while anything right-brain (poetry, photography, music) will be posted to ink. This way you can follow whichever blog fits your interests, and I can tailor the blog structure and theme in a more comfortable way. Hopefully, this separation of concerns will also help me pick this blog back up and start a proper update schedule again.

Now go check it out!

So Lauren has started an awesome new project. Send Me An Instant Photo is her effort to collect as many instant photos as she can. She has a P.O. box all set up and ready, and she’ll be posting all the photos she gets in her gallery.

Good morning everybody! Check out the new look! I finally sat down and taught myself how to build my own WordPress theme so I no longer have to copy and modify free themes I find online. I ran through this tutorial from ThemeShaper, and then grabbed the complete source from their repository. It was very helpful, and the resulting template theme is a perfect jumping-off point for my projects. The template has several interchangeable layouts and is ready for you to apply your own CSS to it. I like how it turned out here quite a bit, and I am also using it for a couple other projects (more about those later). So let me know if you like the theme, and especially if you see any bugs in it with your browser.

For the last several months I have been without a proper PC. To remedy that, yesterday I built a shiny new machine just for me, and it is glorious. To celebrate, I’m finally going to kick off some independent software development. More specifically, in the next few months I intend to churn out several Android apps in various categories and price points, and see where it leads me. I have pages of ideas and now a machine that should be able to actually run the Android test emulator, so here we go. Stay tuned for the first unveiling!

ink
the permanence of thought
good or ill it matters not
paper lies still
write what you will
still there after you blink

ink
the transience of thought
only lasts until it’s caught
successors shape and fill
paper still lies still
the story changes with a wink