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I need to speed up my blogging. Maybe I’m tweeting too much and don’t have the stamina for a full length blog post. Or maybe it’s because I haven’t had time or the need at work to write up involved how-tos lately? I could just be frazzled from the busy summer and wedding planning.

It’s taking me too long to get around to returning to my drafts, and collecting the steps and/or details to finish my blog posts. My drafts are building up! I really just need to buckle down and finish them. At least I have the forethought to start the drafts with notes as I think of them so I can return to them later

I’m going to try to start blogging more often. It won’t be every day, but definitely more frequently than once every six months.

I stopped for a while because Twitter was covering my micro-blogging needs and I wasn’t up for writing long posts. But I’ve started accumulating a number of How-Tos that I want to finish writing up. I also think it’ll be a nice distraction from working and planning the wedding.

I’m still slowly working on fixing the remaining bugs on the site. I’ve made some progress over the past few weeks, but there are still a few out there – like the pagination. I’m still really eager to theme the forum too. I’m hoping that DreamWeaver CS5 helps remove any excuses that I have for procrastinating, because it REALLy does make working with CMSes and forums a lot faster and easier.

Keep checking back!

I took this photo on a rainy day in San Francisco of Lombard St. last weekend. I took the liberty to take full advantage of the Photoshop CS5 beta to clean it up and remove the majority of the distracting bits (power lines, signs, a few people, etc.). It took a little while and I had to combine different approaches, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

Before:

After:

I can’t wait for the announcement on Monday. I can legally say now that I was/am a CS5 Photoshop beta tester. I joined late in the program and didn’t have nearly as much time as I would have liked to dedicate to testing, but I’ve been very impressed with the new features.

Here’s a quick example of some possibilities of what you can do. It’s nothing too elaborate, but should be impressive if you know what to look for.

Click on the image for a closer look of the before/during/after. Enjoy!