I’ve created a new blog on the infiniteNIL site specifically for infiniteNIL News. So for news about infiniteNIL and its products, go to http://www.infinitenil.com/blog. If you have subscribed to the Atom feed of this blog you will now need to subscribe to the feed of the new blog. This blog will continue as well, but I will only write about things not related to infiniteNIL.

On a technical note, the new blog uses WordPress. I’ve wanted to add categories to my blog for a long time and the new Blogger beta supported that but not for a blog with FTP publishing which I used. WordPress gives me what I want and more control. I will be switching this blog over to WordPress as well.

You may have noticed that the infinitenil.com website has been done for a few days. I didn’t notice it till tonight. I’ve been working on having an infiniteNIL specific blog and I messed things up. Sorry about that.

I spent last week in Colorado visiting my parents. The drive out and the drive back took away two days that I usually have to work on PackRat. I did get a little work done on PackRat, but I’m not ready to release anything. Maybe next weekend.

I went to a Rockies game and saw my Dodgers beat the Rockies 3-2, thanks to a game winning hit by Nomar Garciaparra. And tonight is the series finale of Alias. Should be good. I think we actually met Milo Rambaldi last week.

For some reason Blogger listed me on their Blog of Note list after my West Wing post. It’s the first time I’ve ever mentioned the West Wing on my blog. Is that why my blog is of note? What about the PackRat posts? If somebody from Blogger knows what the deal is, I’m curious.

Just finished moving rodschmidt.com to its new host, TextDrive. I’ve heard good things about TextDrive and they have great Ruby support. I’m also moving infinitenil.com to them. This will allow me to add some rails apps to my site. So now you can get to my blog by just going to www.rodschmidt.com. The old rodschmidt.com can be reached by clicking on the Pre December 2004 link in the archives section on the right.

I haven’t posted anything since the 2003 OS X conference, so some of you (I really should say none of you, since I doubt anybody is reading this) may be wondering what I’ve been up to. Well, shortly after the conference, I was laid off from my full-time gig and went directly into full-time freelancing via infiniteNIL. I hooked up with a local Macintosh software company and have been working the past year on new version of one of their flagship products, which we just recently released. It was complete rewrite, using the Cocoa API. I’ve quite enjoyed it and Cocoa (and the Mac OS X platform in general) is wonderful to work with.

I’d go into more detail about the company and product, but they don’t want our relationship known as they prefer the outside world to believe they developed the product themselves. That is unfortunate, but I can understand their reasoning. I might have felt that way myself at one point, but now I’m starting to believe the more everybody shares, the more everybody gets. I’m quite proud of this product, though, as its my first shrink wrap product where I played a major role (if not the major role) in its development. And it runs on the OS X, a platform I believe in and strongly support.

I’m continuing to work on this product and other products for this company as well as some of my own personal products that I have in the works or in my mind. One product I will mention, which is the closest to being an actual product, is tentativly called Serendipity. It’s still only barely functional, but once I finish it, I hope people will find it entertaining and maybe even useful once in a while. All I’ll say is that its purpose is to bring people together.

Well, I haven’t written anything in my old blog (www.rodschmidt.com) for quite some time. Too much of a hassle to use CityDesk since I’ve switched to Mac OS X. Plus blogger has all the stuff a typical blog needs. So if you want to read about my sabbatical, or my 2003 Mac OS X conference stuff see the old site. Otherwise, this is where I’ll be from now on.

Note: now you can just click on the Older Archives link on the right.