I read the Hao Hao Report. A website that no longer shares stories exclusively about China. I haven’t subscribed to their RSS feed for a long time, I’m not an active user. I’m not an old China hand or am I?

I’ve been doing some Googling on various WordPress and other Internet trends. I really should have done more with my blog and website, but I had a lot of issues to deal with in the last few years. Now things are stable in some ways, but since I’m unemployed not stable enough. I’ve spent the last five days doing a crash course on WordPress, PHP, and plugins. I still have a bug or two, but my custom WordPress theme is cleaner and leaner than ever…

One of my many flaws, that some people find endearing, and others perhaps not so much, is my tendency to ramble often on long tangents. Rather than write one long post I decided to write three posts about the recently completed Web Directions North…

This postings consists of the slightly edited point form observations I took from the first day of Web Directions North. The first thing I noticed after registering was there was no WiFi. There actually was WiFi it just was dodgy and the hotel was not prepared for a conference where every attendee had a Powerbook, an iBook, a MacBook, or even in some rare cases a Windows based laptop…