Busy Busy

I have been so extremely busy the past few days with a number of projects that I haven't been able to find to update here. And for that I am sorry. The main project that has been keeping me busy is building my personal website. There are many reasons for this need. Here are but a couple:

1. I have so many different interests and things on the go, that this blog is very inadequate for me to be able to share just a minute fraction of what catches my interests during the day.
2. Even if I were to blog a bunch of little blogs during the day, something would end up getting lost. As well, I am afraid that if I were to blog a bunch of times during the day, it may annoy some. I know it would annoy me over time even if it was something I was very much interested in. And the content would get quickly buried and difficult to retrieve later.
   
3. I feel that finding content of interest on this blog for those who may be searching for something specific can be difficult to locate (see 2). Blogger is not set up in a fashion where everything can be streamlined in a nice and functional way without setting up multiple blogs and an endless number of sidebars and gadgets.
4. I do not like the layout of blogger or the functionality of blogger. It may have been useful at one point in time, but things have evolved and blogger has not kept up.
5. With the growing popularity of this blog, it is time to move onto something more streamline and efficient.

I will still be blogging, but it will be from the blog page on my personal website. This blog will still remain as a sort of archive and for people to continue to read and search as they see fit. There will be a link to this blog on my new site.

When I started to build the site, I knew that I could only include a small fraction of my interests as they are so varied. I have broken it down into 5 main categories and even with just the basics, there is still going to be a lot of content and hopefully something of interest for everyone. The categories are as follows:

1. Blog
2. Geek
3. Art
4. Interviews
5. Music

The blog section is pretty much self-explanatory.

The geek section will feature: "Geek of the Week", this is the main geeky thing that has caught my eye during the week; and "Other Geeky Things of Note", this will be a myriad of things that are of a geek nature that I enjoy. It could be any number of things ranging from gadgets to movies to websites etc. As well on my main page I will have "Geek Kudos of the Day". This will be just a quick snippet of something geek that caught my eye on that day.

The art section will be a mix of photographers, artists, crafters, writers, etc., that I enjoy. I will have a featured artist on my main page and then the art section be more in depth with a number of great artists for people to enjoy. As well, I will be featuring some of my own artwork and crafting projects.

The interview section will be your one stop place to listen to interviews I have done and will continue to do for Party 934.

The music section will be a sub domain of its own. There people will be able to find most of not all the independent artists that I love and whom I regularly feature on my radio show. As well, on the main page of the parent domain, there will be a featured band/musician of the month.

As well there will be links to other places to find me on the web, blogs that I frequently read and a few links to sites that I find of note.

I will also have an about page and a contact page with a number of ways to contact me depending on what your need is. If you are an artist, geek, crafter, musician, writer, etc. and would like to be featured, let me know. If I like what you have to share, I would love to include it on my site.

I am hoping that this will all be ready to launch by the end of the weekend at the latest. If not all completed, then at least have a majority of it completed. The site(s) will be updated daily (depending on content) so once it is done, I hope that you will visit it and visit it often. If this blog goes quiet over the next couple of days, please understand I am very much distracted at the moment.

julia sherred