I have set up a separate site and blog for work-related interests. Find it at alexcolesportfolio.com/blog (update: content now merged back into alexbcoles.com).

Once in a very occasional while a visitor stumbles across this excuse-for-a-blog. And when they do, they feel inclined to chastise me for lack of content. So, I thought I'd let any occassional visitors know what I am up to. After completing university last year, I came over to the US for the summer. After completing most of a couple freelance jobs, I stopped in New York. I hadn't planned to stay, but somehow I ended up doing so... after several weeks of trying half-heartedly to look for work, then a couple weeks of serious "I'm broke I better get...

Somehow I managed to delete the blog, and its postings. But it is up again, once more. I lost my last posting, but it wasn't anything prolific (unlike most of what I have to say ;) )

This site is being worked on! My project over the holidays is to get my Portfolio online. I looked around on the web and there isn't any software out there to handle creating a portfolio, so I'm working on creating something from scratch.

I received a friendly reminder to update my blog the other day. I still haven't got the hang of it. It's partly because I don't really think I lead an eventful enough life to talk about it in great detail, and it's partly that I am not sure a blog deserves a great deal of my time. I could (and may still) start commenting on issues of "current importance", but that would be very time consuming. I am in the midst of writing essays. I have 8 or 9 essays to write in the next 6 weeks, and then that...

Quick test message to test ecto, the new blog editing software I am trying out.