Recently, I decided that it would be worth while for me to create a seperate blog from Net Twits where I can post items related to more general events, web development and other things. Net Twits will remain, and I will continue to post to it, however it will be entirely dedicated to Twits!

So, for my first post to this new blog, I’m happy to report that the construction of my website is coming along nicely. The stylesheet is taking longer than I would hope to create, however I’ve just been so busy with other jobs, such as rebuilding The Farmshed website. That’s the company I work for — the current site is quite awful, but after the rebuild, due for completion in October, it will, hopefully, be standards compliant and should at least validate.

Other than work, I’ve been keeping up with the latest developments with the WHATWG (as some would prefer to call a Task Force because of the better acronym: WHATTF), though I’m still somewhat undecided as to whether this is a good thing for the web. One thing I’m sure about is that I most certainly do not agree with Ian Hickson (aka. Hixie) that new markup languages should be backwards compatible with IE, but as far as Hixie is concerned, that’s very important for any new language to at least stand a chance of being successful.