The last few weeks have been rather hectic for me, personally. Let's recap:
I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Information Systems and a minor in History. Commencement itself was really interesting... we had Al Gore as our keynote speaker, and Randy Pausch was a sort of "surprise" final speaker. As always, Pausch is able to turn his speeches into really inspirational stuff. We're lucky to have him at CMU.
First leg of my trip after graduation was home in North Dakota. That meant clearing out my apartment, boxing things up, and shipping them home (which isn't cheap). I stayed at home for a few weeks visiting old friends and tying up a few loose ends, and then did the process all over again.
So again I packed up my stuff (luckily a lot of it was still in boxes or suitcases), shipped some things out ahead of time, and shipped myself out to Palo Alto, California, which will be my new home. Yeah, I'm doing the startup thing. Tomorrow I start work at PAC, a cool Mac-flavored Rails company that has some really cool plans for the whole employment process (which, if my last year is an indication, sucks, since the job hunt in general is one huge long headache). Looking forward to picking up a lot about Rails and software development in general. Plus, on top of that, I'm in Palo Alto... how cool is that? Work+location+everything should just be a blast. If you're in the region, drop me a comment, email, tweet, what have you.
I'm assuming a lot of you are interested more in this section. What is the status on this fabled new version, anyway? Things were wrapping up quite nicely in early May, but then between graduation and two moves across the country, well, things unraveled a bit. It's to be expected. Now that I start getting settled in here over the next week or so, I'll start getting back on the horse, so to speak, in earnest. I'm hoping to push out the new version come July, give or take. You'll know more as I know more. Lots of fun and exciting new things in store, though.