Don’t worry, it’s just a post
// April 2nd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Life
I’ve just noticed how little I update this site, which is quite frankly, embarrassing.
So why the lack of updates? Well, laziness has to be up there as one of the reasons, but I do have some other reasons which I’ll try and make you believe.
In August last year I joined the design team at TheHut.com who along with running their own online store, also run sites for companies such as Tesco, WHSmith, ASDA, Lovefilm, Argos and Sendit. We also bought the zavvi brand a little while ago too and have relaunched the zavvi site too. So that keeps me busy and although I gave up the freelance life to get my evenings and weekends back, I seem to be working a lot of hours. Saying that though, I am enjoying it, and the hours don’t seem to be as bad as similar hours of freelance.
So what else is going on? Well I am currently working on rebranding, redesigning and moving my photography forum to a new domain which is a much better one in my opinion. The forum itself is growing at a steady pace now with nearly 1700 members and fortunately I have a great team of moderators and admins who keep it going when I’m not about. I’m not sure of the launch date yet, there is a still a fair bit to do yet.
I bought an iPhone too! The beginning of my assimilation into the fruit collective has started. I have to say though that it puts any previous phone I’ve had to shame. It’s corny but true, it just works! Everything is nice and simple and so far there is nothing to complain about. I tried to get the wordpress app for the iPhone but it didn’t want to play ball, but if I get it working (ok, some things don’t “just work”) then I shall be able to update this site a bit more frequently.
I’ve been twittering a lot too. You can follow me at http://twitter.com/gazraa if you want to hear my random mutterings. Twitter, when used well, is a great marketing and social tool. 140 characters at a time may not seem enough but celebrities like Stephen Fry seem to do ok with it, and considering his vast volcabulary of long words, that can’t be bad.
I’ve been trying to do a bit more photography too. I run one or two photography basics courses a month which seem to be going down well. No complaints so far anyway! I enjoy doing the courses but I just wish I was luckier with the weather. I have only run one course so far where it hasn’t rained! Hopefully that will improve as we head into spring and summer.
So there you go, a brief update on my life and why I haven’t updated this site in a while. 4 updates in 2008! Shocking. I’ll try and do better this year.
