New job, new house in a new state, new car, new EVERYTHING.  Life’s been a little crazy lately, but also a lot of fun.  I’m really enjoying the new job so far, and with the learning potential and challenges ahead it only stands to get better.  I continue to be very pleasantly surprised by how passionate everyone there is about making truly usable, beautiful, accessible, and standardized websites and apps.  That attitude goes a long way toward getting me excited about the future there.  The work they’ve done recently is really genuinely good stuff, equal to just about anything else out there, and superior to a lot of it!  They have some very talented designers and developers, and are bringing more on board all the time.

Virginia is pretty great too, it’s beautiful out here.  Mountains west and north of us, and hundreds of square miles of beautiful greenery in between.

The site re-design has sort of been victimized by the whole moving process,  but every now and then i’ve had a chance to go in and make a little change, most of which have little to no visual impact , but are important nonetheless.  IE6  rendering isn’t as bad as I expected, but there’s still a little housecleaning there to be done.  That’s about as low as i’m going to go on trying to give a browser the full experience, anything older will have to suffer through a little ugliness.  With IE7 out now, 99% of the population really has no excuse to not be using a halfway decent browser, and I don’t feel any responsibility to enable them by making things pretty at the cost of awkward hacks and invalid code.  That’s the real joy of having a personal site, not having to cater to everyone!

There’s still a lot of little WP template issues i’m sure.  Forms on obscure pages I haven’t even looked at yet, etc, so I apologize to anyone happening across any ugliness on here.  I’m working on it!