I’ve been wanting to do more with my website, but lack the motivation to finish all my template software write now to make it possible to do it exactly as I would like. So … i decided to move back to wordpress.
A couple of changes have taken place as a result:

1. Left navigation now seperates Internal (Wordpress Pages) and External (Everything else) links
2. Random links on the top right are gone and replaced with the titles of the last 10 posts. Didn’t like the random links anyway
3. Internal Pages now work the way I originally envisioned them 2 years ago but never got around to doing till now

The changes to the home page, are relatively minor and will continue to get better as I hack on the WP code and refine my template.

The one major disadvantage to word press is that not everything works exactly as I’d like it too, which means hacking code, which means upgrading is more of a pain than it should be. Oh well. I’ve already made about 5 changes, I have another 6 to do before I’ll be happy with it. Other than that the rest will be adding content, particularly to the tech pages.

The blog part of the site will become second to the content on the other pages. Most of what I’ve written in blog posts previously will now be Site pages.

Enjoy.

Features I’d love to see on the iPod in the future.

1) Currently pressing the button during a song play back cycles through ratings, length and another length view. To me this is a waste.

Pushing the button should bring up a user definable menu. Here is what i would put on it:

• View Album : Takes you to the track listing for the album that the current song is from
• View Artist : Same thing, but to the artist listing
• Shuffle Toggle : turn shuffle for the play list on and off
• Share Song : See below

2) Volume normalization. Keep the volume the same for all the music automatically. Neuros did this wonderfully. You can do it manually in iTunes, but that kinda sucks.

3) Social Listening. This is the one and only feature of the Zune that I like. It would be great if you could share the current song with someone else. They get to listen to it a couple times then it locks up and they have to buy it from iTMS or whatever.