Ten years of building my career exclusively on the internet, I’ve finally mustered enough momentum to publish my own weblog. I yielded to personal pride to offer my own back whence I’ve taken much from—the vast expanse (and collective hive-mind) of the massive blogsphere because honestly, you wouldn’t be too impressed by a so-called web developer who doesn’t have his own website right? Therefore, I think the time is about ripe for me to walk the talk, or in this case, blog the talk—before people call my bluff.

It took me bloody long enough to get here from the early starry-eyed dot-com days to evangelizing about W3C standards today (however I’m libertarian—not fanatical—and won’t bend over backwards to fit a square peg in a round hole—not without the right equipment anyway), ironically flogging blogs and wikis to various companies and organizations from Australia to backwater Malaysia. Despite which, I still feel all new and virginal about this whole blogging thing—it’s one thing to build blogs and websites for clients (and my wife, Michelle) in the last decade. It is another thing altogether to be rolling my own.

So, ready or not (mostly not, I’m still working on the site’s theme), this is it. My blogging début in no-less dramatic timing than the very first day of the new year. In time to come, I hope to share with you insights from my web and design-related field and maybe occasional vignettes from my life as a young parent thriving in Malaysia. Hopefully, in the process you might glean something useful from me and I’ll also get to know you, my soon-to-be subservient fans discerning reader, a little bit better.