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I haven't spent a lot of time on this blog talking about Blogsmith directly but it is what I spend a large portion of my time on (and have so for coming up on two years now).

Sure there are the Pop / Puma CodeJams and some talking of my trips to New York, DC, SxSW but nothing specific.

Luckily my good friend Mike has taken care of it by posting about the new blogsmith.com and the relevant post feature I added in with him. He even throws in some of his kick ass ideas about how the design of a system should begin with a designer (which I 100% believe and he even quotes me! woot!)

But enough of this text what about pictures? Mike has you covered there as well with a gallery of random blogsmith codejam images where you can actually see me in my PJ's "working". It's tough to be me ;)

Working on the most advanced blogging system in the world with some of the greatest people is fantastic (B,A,M,C,Ck,Cw,Mh). We aren't done yet...we have some great things in the pipe. Heck, I might even start updating my blog to talk about them!

Oh, and we are hiring so if you are a kick ass PHP developer/all around bad ass then send me your resume link! Not to worry, there won't be any softball interview questions.

So guessing from this picture who would you think would lose their sunglasses and all the numbers in their cell phone?

Nope. It was me.

They say bad things happen in threes so I think it goes without saying that I am very excited to see how my day will end.

I would like to indulge you in a brief history...

You see, in the beginning, 13.7 billion years ago the last I counted, there was nothing....which exploded. Sending crap...uhh...outwards. Some 300,000 years after this explosion, electrons and nuclei combined into atoms (mostly making up hydrogen, bow chica bow wow).

Over time the denser parts of all this crap became...well...denser...forming gas clouds, galaxies, stars and little ol' planet Earth.

On the 7th day I rested.

There were some lizards around for a little bit (never forget), but that was just weird. Some monkeys and some awkward looking birds...

Just fast forward past all that till about 2,000 years ago when Jesus of Nazareth was born. Knowing it costs a crap load to raise a child ($350,000+ in todays dollars), two wise guys brought gold and silver to help out while one jack ass brought frankincense (basically incense). Yup...even back then there were hippies.

For the next 29 years or so Christ, who was a Capricorn, sorta just did his thing. Then he turned 30, water into wine, an average guy to a Messiah (the Hebrew-derived word for Christ). And that's when the real miracle happened...people started writing his blog for him. Lucky bastard.

After that, there were crusades and lots of killing, some pretty cool cowboy & indian stuff, and the death of romance.

Around the year 1980, I was born and as of today, at the age of 25, have started my blog. Although I have no idea who I will have write it for me (hell I had to do the template all by myself), I just couldn't slack for 5 more years, and really... water into wine isn't as much of a party trick as it used to be.

So to all...welcome to my bible blog!

Oh, and first post!!1! ;)