Welcome To The New JD.org.uk

It took a while for me to realise that this course of action was probably the best for both me and my blog. So what is this “action” that I have taken? Well basically to start over. I didn’t feel satisfied with my blog in it’s past form – even ashamed.

I decided that if I were to keep my blog as it was it would have hurt both my personal brand and further progression of the blog. There were too many articles there that did not reflect what I wanted to be as a blogger. To many rushed articles, to many rubbish posts. Every time I visited my blog I just felt disappointment.

So what changes are you going to see? Well, you have probably noticed that I have a new design which has a couple of cool features that I hinted at wanting previously. First of all… a link list. So I can now share interesting stuff I find with you a lot easier. They don’t have comments, so don’t look for them; but don’t worry, the regular entries still have comments.

When coming up with the design for the blog I decided I wanted something very content centric, after all – that’s why (I hope!) you’re here. You’ll find no fancy formatting. A very simple and to the point design – except for one very small thing. On a single post, if you’re nice enough to “share it” a fancy ajaxy menu will pop down giving you lots of social bookmarking options.

There are a couple other cool easter eggs, but I’ll leave you to find those out. As for the regular content, I pledge for nothing but my best. It will be everything or nothing.

I’ve tried to sum up everything I want out of this blog and this is what I came up with:

I write this blog for myself primarily, but also for others in the hope that just one thing I say might change the way people think about the world.

It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so excited about this blog and it’s future. I’m looking forward to seeing what I can get out of it.