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Forgive me, Internet, I have sinned.

It has been six months since my [last post](http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2009/05/05/twitter-reply-spam). So much has happened since then that I have wanted to tell you about.

And I tried!


Oh, I tried, several times—I have the WordPress drafts to prove it. But somehow anything too large for a [tweet](http://twitter.com/dsandler) ended up a five-page essay with footnotes.[^foot] (I would have written less, but you know [how it goes](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal).)

[^foot]: No, seriously.

So. Let me be very brief:

* I finished my doctoral studies and got my degree. You can read my [thesis](/pub/thesis) if such things interest you.

* My son turned [one year old](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsandler/sets/72157621420922432/). He is awesome.

* My [wife](http://dsandler.org/erinmak/), The Boy, and I now live in the Boston area. We love it here.

* I now work at Google (with some [dear old friends](http://dsandler.org/gruntle/been)) on the [Android](http://www.android.com/) operating system. It’s pretty [exciting](http://droiddoes.com). There is a lot of very hard work yet to do.

* I am still interested in [research](/research) topics, including distributed systems, security, and social networks. I also continue to maintain my [Mac software](http://toastycode.com) on the side. These pursuits have taken something of a back seat to the above bullets, however.

_Whew._

Now I can start making notes (of the longer-than-140-character variety) again. Thanks, Internet, for your kind indulgence.

So, this is a great experiment in undesign; I’ve gotten great comments both here and on Twitter [@cbowns @boredzo @cromulence @uliwitness @brettp].

But I’ve got a few actual blog posts in the queue, and if I want anyone to attempt to read them, I need to put this damn thing back together. So keep an eye out for a return to readability, but for today enjoy an even-more-eye-assaulting Halloween color scheme.

Sorry for the mess. I’m in the process of upgrading WordPress here on dsandler.org to the latest version, something I haven’t done since 2006.

The code update is done, but the classic “blue bars??? design is totally broken (in part because my custom tagging scheme clashes violently with the taxonomy features introduced in WP2.3) so I think I’ll start from scratch.

You’re looking at the “from scratch??? part right now, a kind of extreme experiment in non-layout. Over time I’ll build up the design up bit by bit, with an eye to eventually having a consistent new L&F that spans my personal and professional web outlets.

I hope to see you back here (and over on twitter, of course) as things evolve.