Finally got two quotes for movers, complete pack and move and my wife should be scheduling the final dates soon. Tomorrow we leave for DC for a conference and to celebrate the 4th at our nation’s capital. I don’t expect to have a lot of time to post here, and won’t have any time to play with gadgets or projects for about a month.

It doesn’t look like I’ll get unpacked in TX in time to build something for the Altoids Contest.

I let the cat out of the bag today by resigning my job postion of 4 years. My last day will be July 12th, 2005.

I’ve had my resume active on Monster.com for about a year now with very few hits and no interest. That all started to change about 2 months ago. The hit counter started moving and I started getting emails from head hunters. Most of them were looking for short term contracts in expensive cities.

I didn’t really expect anything, nor was I really that serious about moving. I put in my resume that I wanted to relocate to Texas to be closer to my family, naming Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston as prefered locations. I added a generous salary requirement and left it at that.

The first contact came about 4 weeks ago. Just a few emails with the HR department, then a phone interview with the manager, and ultimately a trip down and a face to face with 4 people, including one of the founders of the company. We ate good Mexican food for lunch with about half the development team. I enjoyed myself immensly and was impressed with the people and their goals. Apparently the feeling was mutual because they made an offer Monday that I couldn’t really refuse. It’s not much more money, but it is an opportunity to work for a company with clearly defined goals and a profitable track record. I’ll be sure to post the name of the company once I’m onboard and understand their policy on blogging.

If posts here are scarce it’ll be because I’m getting ready for a long 4th of July weekend in DC, house-hunting and preparing for the move. Should be an exciting month.

Just a quick post to let any readers know that I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I’ve just had a lot happening lately. I will make a post tomorrow with more information.

podCast Torrent

I’m starting a new site for podcasters in need of some bandwidth relief. podCastTorrent.com will offer free BitTorrent Tracker services to podcasters. Right now we’ve only got the 17 episodes of The Roadhouse online, but hope to add more as podcasters sign up.

We are testing the tracker. (Yeah!)

If you want to hear an episode of The Roadhouse, click the torrents link, download a torrent and load it up in your favorite BitTorrent client.

Weblog Tools Collection - Wordpress Plugin Competition Update #4

An update on the plugin contest. I’ll be cleaning up the code on 2 or 3 plugins this week.

The end of the plugin competition is on 15 days away. We have over 52 registered authors on the pluginblog, many many plugins have come out of the competition and all of this is great news for the Wordpress community.