And... we're back.

Attentive/nosy visitors to my apartment will note my refrigerator bears a Post-It (written by a particularly attractive ex-girlfriend) that reads "Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!" Years later, I'm still trying to take that advice, and am pleased to be making some tangible progress.

So, fulfilling one of my New Year's Resolutions (see next post), robogeek.com has returned in streamlined, minimalist form that should enable much more frequent and far less painful updating, as I've at long last extricated myself from the morass of manual HTML & FTP madness (which frankly made posting more trouble than it was often worth).

Basically, I've simply wanted to integrate my blogging with my daily web browsing as seamlessly as possible, so after exploring a range of options I went ahead and took the plunge with Blogger. (Their ingenious BlogThis browser button was particularly enticing.) Meanwhile, I'm also switching over from Buzznet to Flickr for the companion moblog (see photos in the right-hand column).

Anyway, for starters I'm using a (very) basic, clean, standards-compliant layout template just to get things going again, but I hope to evolve/customize the design over time to incorporate many of the previous features/resources of robogeek.com in a more elegant/intuitive fashion. (I'll also be preserving the old "retro" robogeek.com in an archive section soon for your collective amusement.)

We'll see what happens.