Who You Calling A Jesse?

At the end of 2009 it is worth a look back at a decade that just happens to be the first 10 years since I was a full-time student. I entered the naughties in a job based out of Thesselon Ontario working for the Community Development Corporation trying to get small business on the web and into our crazy new web site (which was updated only recently to a much better site). Now I am part of a small team of folks trying to get students at the University of Waterloo connected to people that will help build something awesome at VeloCity.

I would have never guessed the decade would close the way it has and I have to say I feel extremely lucky. While all the madness of the world was going on I met my wife, bought a house, experienced a part-time grad program, I have kids, and lots of other fun stuff.

What have I learned?

• I knew nothing in my 20s
  
  • …and spent way too much time worrying about things
  • …and I let that worry guide too many decisions
• experience is important, embrace every experience good or bad but don’t let experience limit you
• always take calculated risks and be ready for Plan B (because you are wrong about plan A most of the time)
• how not to take things personally instead of just saying that I don’t

I hope that the next 10 years are just as fun as the last 10. Just like in 1999 when I thought I would be old in 2009, I think I will really be old in 2019… hopefully wiser ;)

I have moved my blog over from Textdrive to Joyent. Probably the most difficult part was the Joyent wiki. It has a load of useful, well written information that is easy to follow. But if you don’t watch what is in the URL you might be reading help files for the wrong hosting. Not a big deal unless you are bad at reading instructions like me.

I did stay with Simplelog even though it hasn’t been updated in over a year. It suits my needs and I just don’t want to bother converting over to WordPress or back to textpattern.

Not an overly difficult task for a windy/rainy long weekend Sunday.

Transitioning to a new site is a pain. My old site has a good Google ranking, decent amount of traffic, and 3.5 years of posts. This place has been around for a while but I just don’t post here. So it doesn’t have much of a Google ranking, no one vists (yet), and no articles.

I have a post on Zoomii in the works and some more stuff about StartupCampWaterloo and hopefully over time this blog will grow.

With regards to Simplelog though. What a really cool blogging tool. I really like the back end environment, the theme management, and the ability to customize it. I don’t have a grand plan for the design but the stuff I could do is just so easy. Anyway… this post is just to say I am here and will be doing more shortly.