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I think it’s fair to say that once you’ve got to know a number of well respected individuals within the web design and development ‘blogosphere’ it’s easy to feel that everything you write on your blog must be absolutely right or failing that, a total revelation for your readers which will bring you fame, glory and tits, sorry I meant ‘hits’.

Sometimes I have to step back and remind myself that actually this is ‘my blog’ and I can write whatever I want on it, hell I can even be wrong if I want, there’s nothing wrong with being totally and absolutely off target once in a while.

Sorry, just wanted to make a note of that. As you were!

I’m just not in love with ‘regular’ blogging like I was before. The spark has gone and it’s not coming back. Add to that the fact that I simply don’t have the time or the inclination to blog like I used to… it’s not you, it’s me.

So it’s time to think about how to adapt this site to better reflect the time I can commit to it on an ongoing basis, perhaps integrating feeds from other areas of the web where I am more active; Facebook, Flickr, Delicious and Last.fm. Nowadays Twitter seems more and more appealing, providing a outlet for short and sweet comment on life.

For a long time I’ve been hoping to migrate this site from Textpattern to Expression Engine so this seems like the ideal opportunity to do so. I’ve had an initial tinker and it looks like I should be able to migrate all the content fairly easily. From there I’m going to have a play with the fantastically clever Expression Engine ‘FeedGrab’ plug-in by Andrew Weaver which should allow me to pull together the various strands of data associated with me from across the internet and present them in one location.

So if things get a little funky here, you know why. :)

I guess it was inevitable that at some point my desire to keep blogging here would start to falter. The 7th of June will not only mark 4 years of married life, but also 4 years of blogging at nathanpitman.com.

More and more time is being consumed by the business as we strive to find new ways to take on more work and look towards developing ‘something’ which ultimately will give us the stability to expand. There seems to be increasingly less room in my head for my personal site and in my heart ‘“Nine Four”:http://www.ninefour.co.uk’ is where I am now, nathanpitman.com is from an era that has seemingly passed.

Now, I’m not saying that this is my last post. Far from it. I’m sure I’ll be pimping the new addition to our family here when s/he arrives but as you may have noticed from the archives, content has been a little sparse over the past couple of months, to be truthful, it’s nose dived, and the quality has always left something to be desired so, well… makes me wonder if it’s worth it.

Perhaps without my personal site gnawing at my ankles for a post I’ll be able to find the space to pull together a website for the business and really begin to make the most of the opportunities that are presenting themselves.

So, without further ado, subscribe to the feed and feel free to wander off elsewhere, and accept my apologies for the severe lack of updates over the coming months.

This morning whilst doing the rounds I discovered that John Oxton has decided to take a break from blogging.

Hopefully John will resurface some time soon, coz I’m really gonna miss reading about that rather amusing fat hairy welsh ass from now until then.

Hope things get better for you soon John.