Long time, no post!

Wow, its been so long since my last post that I’ve almost forgotten what a blog is. Well, almost.

Many things have happened both personally and professionally, hence the post hiatus.

But once again, I’m back and hopefully this time, I wont be straining myself trying to crank out humongous posts that take days to complete. Maybe if the posts are short and sweet i’ll end up with a more regular flow of useful snippets, rather than a 3 month delay then a 20 page monster article. These will still happen, but they won’t be the focus of my attention.

Anyway here’s a few things that have been keeping me away from the blog (if anyone’s interested!)

• I’ve won another award for the project I’m working on – this time it was cash. Cold hard cash 🙂
• I’ve come to the uncomfortable conclusion that I’m working masses of overtime for the wrong people, so it’s time to redress the balance. I won’t be working less, I’ll just be shifting what I’m doing, and who I’m doing it for. Working less is for sissies.
• I’m setting up a Micro-ISV. After being infected with the Micro-ISV bug from my good friend Tim Haughton. After many conversations, I’ve been convinced that my talents lie elsewhere. Well other than permanent employment that is. More about this later.
• I’ve been put through the assistive technologies wringer, and befriended a blind user who’s convinced me of the value of proper screen reading access. I can’t imagine using a PC without seeing the screen but he manages just fine. Truly amazing. One thing it has made me aware of is the vast market for well written useable products that aid users, even if they’re just partially sighted. Our WPF application at work has scalable fonts throughout, and i don’t think there’s a single user that doesn’t change the font sizes to make them larger.

Anyway, that’s enough posting for this entry, or I’ll be back on a 10 pager. I *will* be back tomorrow with a post about a good way to allow assitive tech to read the stuff on a WPF application under Windows XP. Damn that was tricky.

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