To all those who find the site in its current state. I've recently installed the new blogging system Habari because I wanted to experiment with a relatively new and paired down Content Management System. I haven't really been posting a hell of a lot lately as I have been very busy on client projects but one of the reasons for switching from Wordpress to Habari was its paired down interface - no distractions just writing.
I will re-initialise my Wordpress installation and make it into a video and photo portfolio site for my personal work. I have just started my company wih my partner in crime Erez Odier. Its called Second Variety after the Philip K Dick short story.
As we're heading of for our short holidays this year I just want to say that working in the Web over the past two years has been incredible and the number of changes going on righ now along with the intorduction of HTML5 and CSS3 is going to make for some interesting times ahead. I believe we're on the cusp of a usability revolution where systems like SquareSpace and CMS's like Habari Wordpress and Modx become so easy they also almost negate he need for much of the coding work that takes place. The emphasis will be on the use and customisation of existing plugins and the creation of detailed information architectures.
People simply don't want to pay for something that with a little effort could be built by themselves. The trick with supported open source I believe is to give people the means to do this. I will blog more about this later ciao for now...