This week I have two websites that I've been having some fun with. The first is Taaz.com. At Taaz you can upload a photo of yourself and give yourself a makeover, with new hair, makeup, even contacts. It works quite well, the UI is nice, and it has all the social networking goodies like friends and commenting and you can even give other people makeovers! There's been other sites that tried to do this but didn't do a good job at all, were full of advertising (Taaz has advertising, but it's not intrusive), or gave you limited options unless you paid for it.

This is the haircut I come up with. They do need more hairstyles, I think, and a 360 view would be awesome.

It turns out since I switched my site to Slicehost my contact form hasn't been working. Quite obvious, since I'm using Google Apps for my email now. Anyhow, I did see several log entries of people trying to contact me and I did wonder why I hadn't gotten any email from the site in a while but wrote it off as just I hadn't been writing many interesting Drupal related things!

Anyway, if you tried to contact me, I was not ignoring you. Just send me an email directly which can now be found in the contact section, since I have no intention of spending the time to get mail on the site working right now.

Still digging? Check out Mixx. They just released their API.

This last week I've taken it upon myself to see what's going on in the web tech world. I used to keep pretty on top of this stuff, web 2.0 and all that, but I've admittedly fallen behind on the latest and greatest the past year, instead concentrating on Drupal and, of course, my three amazing daughters.

There's so many new websites and things to do and keep up with. Web 3.0, even - gack! Come on! I just barely started twittering (tweeting?) and reorganized my iGoogle and added a bunch of feeds I used to read, feeds from some Drupalchix, etc. But I still just don't know if it's even worth it.

I have a very standard routine in preparing myself to sit down and work each morning. It's like I need to prepare before sitting down and thinking of my desk and laptop-- which I use for more than just work being as I work from home-- as my work station. Firstly, I go through my personal emails, hopefully with coffee in hand, browse the Drupal Planet, some other blogs I subscribe to, a few message boards, etc. And then I need to find a song to get my pumped up and ready to work.

Note: Not posting this to Drupal planet as it's not really that interesting for most people.

End of day three of Drupalcon Boston 2008. It's been fun, stressful, exhausting, interesting, insightful and I'm incredibly mentally and physically exhausted! I feel like I could sleep for days. I actually did oversleep this morning after a late night over at FELT, the awesome gathering Acquia threw. I was sad to miss the Simpletest session.

So... recap of my day yesterday. I went to the Future of Fields session which was really insightful, but I couldn't get my wireless working during it which tends to make me impatient.

Went to the Google in Open Source session since my wireless wasn't working. It was entertaining, which is always good.