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Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve launched a new blog. You’ll find daily blog posts from yours truly over at rethord.com!

I’ll keep tdhedengren.com as a portfolio and services page – expect it to be updated to a new fresh design, showing off my mad skillz, and promoting myself and what I can do for you, coming this November. As you know, I’ve already changed the front.

Folks, I’m going to update tdhedengren.com during the coming days, and make some crazy changes while my new blog rolls out. Please bear with me. Thanks.

I’m back from my vacation, rested but loaded with work to be done in the coming two weeks. Business is good, thank you very much, I’ve got design gigs lined up and the requests keeps coming in.

In other words, I’m not complaining – but coming back from more than a week off is a bitch, honestly.

Anyway, I’m pumped up for projects and stuff, which means I need to start rolling out my new tdhedengren.com blog. It will make use of the design I made for my Swedish blog, tdh.se, and will sport regular updates. I guess I have to get myself a portfolio as well, my hire me page isn’t very exciting.

So I’m back. If I haven’t answered your e-mail that you sent no more than two weeks ago then send it again.

Peace out, people!

“You should blog again!” said David Krug a few minutes ago. “It’s almost been a month!”

It has, hasn’t it? The thing is, I’ve been holding out for the launch of my new design (already up in beta on tdh.se). Unfortunately, I’ve been too swamped to actually put the hours into it that is needed.

Yeah, I suck.

Still, it’s on the radar. And when I’ve relaunched I’ll be blogging more frequently about things, doing series of posts and so on.

In the meantime, sorry David and folks. I’m in a hiatus here at the moment.

Do subscribe to the RSS feed to get the latest dirt when it relaunches.

I never really left, it just got sold, redesigned and then redesigned again. My first posts will appear tomorrow if all goes well.

In other news, I’m going to try and relaunch this blog next week. It might not be possible, work comes first, but I’ll try to get it out in 2.0 beta. It will look like this, sort of.

I’m living in a box, almost literally. This weekend will be spent carrying furniture, boxes and all that junk you can cram into a house. I’m going to try and cram it into the new apartment, that will certainly be a challenge.

This means that I’ll be offline from Friday ’til Monday afternoon at the very least. Most likely something will mess with me and my broadband connection will suffer, but we’ll see. If everything works out as it should I’ll be up and running again sometime Monday.

Until then I’m trying to get my business in order. I screwed up a code delivery which annoys the hell out of me, so I’ll spend the evening fixing that. Inbetween packing boxes of course.

In other words, I’m semi-off this week. When things are back to normal I’m hoping to launch the TDH 2.0 beta here at tdhedengren.com as well – although the tdh.se one is missing some things it seems to run smoothly enough.

There you have it, typed on my MacBook sitting on a box.

I’ve been using a modified version of the Simplr theme all this time. The blog got launched just for the sake of putting me out there, blog wise, so that great people like Matt Craven could find my writing. Which in turn led to me getting into the loop, doing design gigs and ending up on 901am.

The Simplr theme is nice, clean and straight forward, pretty well suited for a blog with not some many posts each week. However, I’ve surely grown out of it for one thing, and also I think I should use one of my own designs.

So I’ve started sketching up TDH 2.0, which just is a silly working name for this project. Basically, it’s a new design for tdhedengren.com that will allow me to do a little bit of different posting (more frequently too), and also will give a push for projects I’m involved in. I’ve blogged a bit haphazardly here previously, which was the idea frmo the start since I wanted to land blogging gigs, but succeeding that it’s about time I get my stuff in order. With the new version there will be set goals, thought through categories and syndication from other sites I write on. I might also do a Swedish version focusing on my stuff there, but that won’t clash with this one…

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and now I’ve reached the point where I pull out my pencil (yeah, I like to sketch by hand first) before actually getting started. Granted, this will probably be a work in progress for quite some time since I’ve got lots of work to do, but just getting the ball rolling is important enough.

I’ll keep you guys posted. Do subscribe the RSS feed if you want to make sure you don’t miss anything!

I’m finally feeling somewhat like myself again, which is a nice change from the coughing feverish person a couple of days ago. Naturally, I have a ton of things that have piled up so I’m gonna get right to it chopping through it and hopefully I’ll be able to work as normal next week.

In other words, I’ll continue to be semi-away here for a little while longer. I have however resumed my work at 901am at my regular pace, and you’ll see other stuff from may pretty soon, depending on when the clients will launch their sites.

Thanks for bearing with me while I get back in gear.

Oh man. What a weekend. I got to be healthy for a grand total of three (3) days. Then fevers and cough and whatnot struck and I was out all weekend. Friday evening ’til now – I’m still not on my feet for regular working hours.

That blows, and so does my nose.

All of you who have e-mailed me, I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. The projects that are in the pipeline are intact, overall, although I’ll have a few stressful days this week. Hopefully I’ll manage. I’ve had some medical issues earlier so I’m not taking any chances, nothing is worth that…

Anyway, sorry if you’re waiting for me to get back to you. While you wait, you might as well check out the newly released public beta of Swedish site Kong. It’s been up a week or so, and it’s doing really well.

I need a little break. Actually, I think I need a big break really, but I’ll settle for a little one. There’s tons of work to do and I feel I’m spending a bit too much time in front of the screen. So I’m taking small breaks where I can, such as here. It started earlier this week with some personal matters, add some illness and a little fever and you have my week so far.

Needless to say I’m still fulfilling my duties over at 901am on a daily basis. Clients (yep, I have a few at the moment) needn’t worry either.

I’ll be back soon. Next week probably. When taking a break, it’s usually hard to stay away.