Paul Hagon

So it’s been a while since the last post, and the site is still not finished. I kind of got a bit done on it while I was sitting up late watching the Tour de France and the World Cup, but since then it’s all stalled a little. The IA still doesn’t exist, the layout isn’t finalised & it looks awful in IE6. There have been a few other things going on in my life that I’ve been concentrating on.The big thing is I’ve got a new job. After 7 years of working at the Australian War Memorial I’ve moved to the National Library of Australia. I’ll write a little more about this in another article.I’ve also been doing a bit of travelling. I’ve recently spent 2 1/2 weeks in Indonesia. I’m working my way through the 5Gb of photos that I took. As I narrow them down I’ll pop them up on Flickr.

I’m getting there with the development of the site. If you see some stange things happening around here it will just be me trying a few things.

I turned 35 yesterday. I thought it would be a good time to force myself into getting my online presence up and running. As a web developer I’ve found I am always seeking perfection for my own site, so I start something, get 75% of the way there & decide I don’t like it. I start all over again & keep going through the same process. I’ve always figured what’s the rush - it’s better to get it right than to present something I’m not happy with. Unfortunately this inevitably leaves me with nothing online. I’ve decided to force myself into doing something, so for the time being this has the default templates installed & that should force me into doing something about my website.