I did a bad thing… I let the “no posts in the last 20 days” mes­sage sit on the home page for longer than a week. Very slack of me.

So, like all errant blog­gers, I will now plead my case.

Excuse 1: The WA Web Awards. Being on the organ­is­ing com­mit­tee for Port 80’s WA Web Awards has taken an amaz­ing amount of energy. But it’s going to be soooooooo cool! The entries are in, the judg­ing is in progress, tick­ets are sell­ing to the big night, it’s all hap­pen­ing. Our spon­sors — The WA Inter­net Asso­ci­a­tion, Edith Cowan Uni­ver­sity, Macro­me­dia, W3A and Adobe — have got­ten right behind us, and it def­i­nitely looks like this year will be a big suc­cess, paving the way for next year.

Excuse 2: New Blog. I don’t mind read­ing the occa­sional off-topic post, and I def­i­nitely like see­ing people’s per­son­al­i­ties come through, but this blog has been some­what schiz­o­phrenic over the past 18 months. I swing from topic to topic, and that’s just not aggregator-friendly. So, I have a new blog just for web stan­dards, CSS, HTML and gen­eral “best prac­tises” web devel­op­ment top­ics. It’s over here: http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ and if you’re into that kind of thing, check it out. It uses the most won­der­ful Word­Press, of which I have become a huge fan of late.

Is that enough? I’ve also been really busy at work — we’re doing a big Far­Cry project as well as 25,000 other things. I’m now on the Port80 com­mit­tee as well, after a 22 sec­ond AGM at the pub last week (it was short because there were four can­di­dates for five open posi­tions). So hope­fully with all the new CF stuff I’m doing there’ll be more on-topic posts and less fluff in the future.

How’s that for a byline? kay lives here, now with 80% less fluff.