Alrighty then! My little snafu with Google has now been addressed, my blog is back to serving itself up at idblog.org again, and one holiday is out of the way. Time to get back to blogging. Big yay! (Note: side benefit of porting to wordpress.com is that post URLs are actually preserved, so I don’t think I broke links after all.)
That said, there are going to be some changes here moving forward. A lot of the lighter stuff is moving to my Facebook page. Considering how much time I spend there with friends and family, posting that stuff here was just redundant (and was mostly accomplished automatically by Posterous).
I’ll still be posting the occasional information design (the reason I originally created this blog), UX, or web post here though. I’m still doing web work as a living, so that’s still an interest area.
But if you’re following me on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed an awful lot of tweets on obesity, nutrition, and other foodie-related subjects. This has been a personal interest of mine for a long, long time, and now it’s moving into a more formal direction. Starting in January, I’m going to be taking classes as a non-degree student at George Mason in their Global and Community Health department, with a possible eye towards getting a masters in public health.
As you know if you’ve read the news, there’s an “obesity epidemic” out there. Or is there? Yes, no doubt Americans have been gaining weight, but is the problem as serious as the scary headlines suggest? And even if it is, what is the right solution?
If that’s not something that interests you, then better hit the unsubscribe in your reader! Me, I’m fascinated, yet also troubled, as the implications for dealing with weight can be very problematic (see: Lincoln University).
So let’s get ready to rumble!
