There's an old proverb that goes: "Oops, I did it again."

Wise words. Very wise words.

Once upon a time, I revamped this website every 15 minutes. An idea would strike me, and I would code furiously through the night until I could release something that... well... nobody liked. But it was about innovation, dammit! Innovation!

This new website that you are looking at now, this sucker was a bit slower in the making. Not because I was being intelligent or methodical, mind you. I started this in November 2012, and have been chipping away at it in my spare time — usually at 3am, after long days of medical appointments and freelance gigs — trying to get it ready. It's still not quite ready, but I have some immovable deadlines coming up, and I need to get this out.

There's more to this than just a new site, though. It's about my returning to the land of the living, and getting back to basics. Let me take you on a (brief) journey, if you will...

I'm sure most of you know by now about my wife's accident, and the agonizingly slow recovery we're going through. Situations like these don't resolve quickly or easily, and they have the effect of completely disassembling your life in the most miserable way imaginable. But the bright side of being disassembled is that you get to really investigate what it is that makes you tick. You get to decide if you like yourself or not.

What I discovered is that I miss being crazy. I miss doing the things that nobody else is stupid enough to try, not because it makes good business sense, but because there is an untouched piece of thinkspace out there that needs defiling. I have (oddly) built my career on being foolishly impulsive, and the only thing, in all these years, that's slowed me down... is my wife's apparent propensity for traffic-surfing.

(It's ok... we do the dark humour thing a lot these days)

So what does this mean? I don't know. I have a lot of ideas, and I'm inclined to try them out one by one until something explodes. I've got nothing left to lose. I spent the last year trying to do the sensible thing, the responsible thing, to keep myself from hitting bottom. But now that I'm at the bottom... well, sensible stuff is useless, so let's be a little senseless. Kamikaze innovation.

If you're up for it, please stick around. If you have stopped sticking around, please come back. If you were never here, I don't know how you're reading this, but all the same: let's do some silly things together.

It might hurt a little, but nowhere near as much as the criticisms I'll get about this redesign