Enough with the procrastination; I am reintroducing stickrod.com to the triple dub world / blog-o-shere in 2006. The last year, two thousand and five, has been a year of change not only for this website but for the Stickrod life as well. Let me briefly chronicle the events. The headline affair was joining Catherine in holy matrimony on February 5th; quite a grandiose event. This followed closely by a step up the corporate ladder with a new company and a residence reposition to the windy city of Chicago.

Now for the more technical changes as if marriage, job and a new city were not enough. This site has relocated as well moving from my basement to a professionally hosted environment at Dreamhost. No longer do I fret about power outages or IP address changes in the middle of the night. CMS is now run through WordPress (no longer Movable Type) which is taking me longer to learn than first thought. The current design is no where near my vision for the site so changes will be frequent and drastic as will be witnesses by repeat visits. The core theme is currently and for the foreseeable future K2 by Michael and Chris with some lame attempts on my part to alter the CSS to my liking. As I was reading thought some of my old posts from the previous life I had a moment of clarity and realized that I generally disliked what I had written and decided not to upload the posts to this new site. Wiping the slate clean and starting anew is invigorating; breathing life (hopefully) into this once dull blog.

I hope that you enjoy the content that I throw to the world in IO form.