It’s 2010 and time to kick this thing off again

This site’s been abandoned for a fair while now, but I think it’s time to get it started again. I enjoy writing; it’s been something I’ve neglected for a while, and a blog is an excellent opportunity to do so. Besides there’s a limit to how much special interest things one can post to their Facebook status updates before people lose interest.

To summarise, in 2008 and 2009 it was pretty much all work – exceptional amount of work in 2008 (that followed an initial good start due to getting back into hip hop dancing) after a long period of being relatively dormant/lazy on the fitness end meant that I got quite fat, no energy to work out, and thus the evil cycle of working myself into a very unhealthy corner played out. To counter this, at the end of 2008 a first ride in the You Yang mountains with my trusted old Trek Y22 started a very strong passion for mountain bike riding which ended up with my health doing a complete 180 as I enrolled in a series of MTB races to have further motivation for my training. Along with the followed a change of diet & lifestyle, and thus 2009 became year of rejuvenation that will hopefully have set the tone for this whole new decade. At 36, health is not to be taken for granted and thus it will be an important topic to me.

This year the following topics are on my radar:

1. Follow smartphones, tablets and ebook readers – e.g. Android and Apple [mobility].
2. Programming – ColdFusion, and Java / Android programming [programming].
3. PC/Gadgets; hardware and software [tech].
4. Internet topics; e.g. Google Reader / Wave, Aussie Censorship [internet].
5. Mountain bike riding and other healthy exploits  – hopefully also hip hop/funkdancing [health].
6. Entertainment, including shows, PC gaming, HTPC [entertainment].
7. Everything else, including e.g. environmental [general]

Now, I have been blogging on funkdancer.com since 2000; whilst the older archives will stay lost, this site has never been limited to just one topic. So I will clean up the site, starting with structuring the categories list to be ordered under the master categories above. I will also ensure they’re RSS’able; thus if anyone wants to read what I write about smartphones and subscribe to my RSS feed, by limiting to selected categories they shouldn’t have to get e.g. mountainbike spam in their feedburners. I expect to refine the above list as I go along.

Cheers all,
Jørgen

ps. On an admin note, I started off by upgrading Wordpress to the latest #2.9.1, which was pretty painless, and I must say that I really like the updates in the user interface on the admin end.