To be quite honest, that title stings a little bit. My ten year career with my previous employer has ended through no fault of my own. The company that I previously worked for decided to close the building we worked in, leaving myself and many others without a job to go to.

Unfortunate for sure, but I intend to raise a glass to new beginnings! So while this situation might be bad for my personal finances, it should be good for you, or the few of you who are regular readers of this site. With all of my new found spare time I intend to add a bunch of new articles to this site. The majority will probably be tutorials in web design and photography, but I will probably throw in some free WordPress templates and miscellaneous articles as well.

The first item to come up will be a video on how to build a better light tent. I should have this complete in the next few days. Don’t want to give away any spoilers, but I have one more part to shoot that involves a cat high on the catnip. Should be quite entertaining.

After the light tent video, I will be concentrating on the soon to be re-branded beer review site. With the re-branding it will be getting a real design for the site and many many more reviews on the hand crafted beers that you love. If there are any beers you would like to see reviewed in the near future, send me a message. Assuming that I can score these at any of my local beer distributors I will get the team of tasters together to throw back a few and put our thoughts into words.

Aside from that, I have a ton of new content planned for here, as well as a few sites I am also involved with. So with that, stay tuned, new content is coming.

It has been a long time coming, but I am happy to announce that my site has finally been redesigned! At the moment, just the main portion of my site is done. The blog will be up next for taking on the same design.

Of course, with any new design, there are plenty of bugs to be worked out. I didn’t do as much testing as I should have, simply because I was excited to get the old design out of sight. The previous version wasn’t really wasn’t much of a design. I put up the information quickly with every intention to put together a nicely designed site. Unfortunately, other projects started popping up, and before I knew it, a year had gone by with nothing done to the site.

The new site isn’t complete yet either. I have quite a few new features and tweaks planned for the near future, so expect to see changes happening almost daily. With the new design, I also plan to start adding regular posts to the blog. These will range from tech tips to rants.

I am curious what everyone has to say about the new look. Send any comments, good, bad or ugly, to my email, or in the comments below.

In my next post, I should have a good rant about Internet Explorer poisoning the internet!

Some friends of mine did a commercial for the recent Heinz Commercial Contest. Check it out: Heinz Day Dream!

Since some people seem to stumble here first instead of my site’s home page I thought a short description was in order.

This is my blog page. Sadly, I pretty much neglect this side of my site. I have ideas of grandeur for it, but something always seems more interesting at the time. Please continue to check back, or subscribe to the RSS though, because one of these days I am really going to roll up my sleeves and get this beast running!

In the meantime, check out the rest of my site by starting at the home page of the main site! Or, if you are into drinking beer, perhaps you might like the Beer Garden home page!

Lighting 102 will be starting on June 4th at strobist.com If you don’t know what strobist is, it is the premier spot on the web to learn about off camera lighting. Check it out http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/05/starting-june-4th-lighting-102.html