Here’s something new and interesting. Swurl aggregates all of your social networking Web 2.0 goodness into one place. You can add your blog(s) , Flickr, Twitter, Facebook status updates, etc. into one big RSS feed so that people can keep the hell up with what you’re doing. It’s very easy to sign up and set up. I like!

As a side note,  I signed up for Twitter. I can’t stand the word “twitter.” It sounds so… mindless. But, the concept is cool. I will probably use it for things that don’t justify the massive effort required to create a blog post.

This is cool. I looked up my address on Virtual Earth, and found that they had rendered my building in 3D! Actually, it’s the only building in my neighborhood that shows up in 3D.  And who’s that in the parking lot? Emeril Legacy!

For the last year I’ve been tossing around the idea of renting some studio space. The main reason is that I often feel cramped shooting in the small corner that I’ve set aside for a studio. I often feel cramped working at my computer in the other small corner I’ve set aside for this. But, is buying more space the only way to get more space? I don’t think so. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that I can make better use of the space I have now, instead of increasing my monthly expenses. All it’s going to cost me is a lot of hard work.

One of the things I have to think about is all my computer stuff. Computer stuff is important to me, so there’s no avoiding this. I don’t want to lose any functionality or convenience because I’m shifting things around.

Here’s how things are right now:

The first diagram shows all the computer stuff I need to maintain, and where it is located. The second diagram shows a very rough floor plan of my place, which is not to scale, or necessarily even the right shape. I notice that I even got the shade of green for the loft wrong. Nice!

I have realized that I do not need a huge bedroom, and that space would be better used as a living room. That would free up my current living room to be a studio. My current studio would become an office.

Here’s how it would look in diagram form:

Ahhh much more spacious. I’m also planning to redo the floors in the new shooting area and my kitchen/lobby/office area. Instead of carpet and vinyl flooring, it will be a laminate/hardwood. I’ve also picked out some paint colors to completely repaint the interior, all the way up to the 16 foot ceilings. But that is a story for another day. This is going to be a busy spring!

I am still planning to make a brand new theme, and I can even see it in my head. But, I have had other priorities lately, so I’ve had to be satisfied with just making a few small changes to my blog. Now my comments are nested, using this awesome Wordpress plugin from Brian Meidell. I also added the tag cloud to the sidebar. Now I feel compelled to go back through all my old posts and tag them, so that the cloud accurately represents the content of my blog! I may have created some work for myself here…