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The end of May is approaching, and we draw near to CutEdge’s first birthday. It’s been a wild ride, and I’ve learned many things - in fact, I’m still learning many things. Blogging has been one of the best things that ever happened to me, as it’s given me a chance to demonstrate my abilities and focus my time towards.

Speaking of focus, I’ve changed focus many times over one year (as well as themes). CutEdge initially started as a gizmo blog, but that was of no use - it didn’t work well for original material. I decided to start writing reviews of free software, and then recently, start parting advice to you all on the consumption of technology.

There have been a few things that have halted my development of CutEdge:

• The search of a good theme - I’ve decided to focus on other things though. This will be the temporary final revision (haha) until I have enough money to either purchase a premium theme or hire a designer.
• The review bug - I’ve been bitten by the review bug. I think I might’ve bitten off a bit more than I could chew, so I’ve been busy with many projects as of late (collaborating with other sites as well).
• The challenge of Fight Club - last weekend, I watched Fight Club - and felt challenged by its message about consumerism.

I will not necessarily change focus again, but perhaps change priorities a bit - instead of focusing on buying buying buying, I will focus on how to buy smart.

The things you own will end up owning you.

Tyler Durden - Fight Club

Well, I’ve finally been able to get to modifying The Morning After by Arun Kale.  Huge respect to Arun Kale for creating such a great theme and conceiving such excellent instructions for modifying - it was a breeze to learn, even for a code newb like me.  Lots more colour.

Everyone, look forward to a much more magazine-y CutEdge and more original content. 

I myself look forward to getting out of coding mode and back into what I love most - writing.  Hopefully, I don’t run out of ideas too soon (just kidding folks).

Ironic how in the beginning of spring, I will begin hibernating.  I feel as though the CutEdge theme has really gotten too rotten for me (the oranges and greens really don’t match).  After finally viewing a great other magazine theme (that looks more magazine-y) and having installed Wordpress locally, and having re-done over a theme before, I feel as though I’m ready to overhaul CutEdge.

I know I’ve been scarcely on.  PLEASE, bear with me for just another week.

Of course, I’ll still be pumping out new material.  Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday (this one’s my replacement post for the one I didn’t write yesterday - sorry, funeral).

Have a good one.

After yesterday’s post on the Samsung Instinct and how Samsung is the number one contender for Apple’s spot, I was delighted to discover that MacSurfer linked to my post. Upon doing some research, I realized this was a pretty rare honour and want to give them thanks for the link love.

I’m going to confess - I’ve been feeling a bit unmotivated lately when it comes to CutEdge to do a variety of reasons: I’ve realized that taking on the entire technological industry isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. I’ve also been having a bit of trouble coming up with new content, and thus the Samsung Instinct really proved to be a catalyst to creating new content and ended up spawning this post. Also, my readership hasn’t seemed to be growing much, but thanks to MacSurfer I’ve experienced a spike in traffic (and hope to continue creating content that will make you readers proud).

I’m now focusing more on content than ever before, and realize that spending time marketing and all won’t matter if there’s no content to support me. Plus, I want to make content so great other people will share it - please, if you’ve got any comments, e-mail me or put ‘em down.

Oh, and proof - of course. No offense meant to any of the links above or below my point, just wanted to emphasize the CutEdge part of the image, haha.

Hi everyone!

I’ve got a ton of stuff running around at the moment, so I’m not going to beat around the bush - I’m having a bit of trouble primming the blog as of recently.  However, as usual, I’ve also got stuff being planned for the future - and it’s really drastic stuff.  Like, life-altering stuff.

Anyway, firstly: I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 - and wow.  While Wordpress 2.3 focused on mainly functionality, Wordpress 2.5 definitely re-worked the GUI.  I’m very impressed by the control panel change, and I’m not even exaggerating.  Like - wow.

Secondly, I’m planning on an opportunity to start another blog - one more targeted, because I realize that it’s an uphill battle when one man decides to try to take on the entire tech industry.  I’m not giving up the war, but fighting the battle with a different strategy.

Finally, thanks for being so patient with me, as usual, my readers.  However, I’m surprised - my ZLoop community is a lot more quiet than I thought it’d be - where’s the spirit?  Haha.

From,

Herbert