An old saying I’ve been using a lot lately is the old saw “A shoe cobbler’s kids go shoeless”. Basically, it points out how difficult it is to keep one’s own affairs in order when it is one’s job to do so for others. As an example, my company is in the business of building fantastic technology solutions, but our own website is rather neglected. This is something we see as a real problem and will address soon.
In truth, falling into this trap is understandable, but a bad idea. What better advertising for the shoe cobbler than to have his kids in fantastic shoes? But the fact that there is even a saying about this reflects just how common this is. When starting a business, your first priority in the early stages is to get the cash flow going and make sure your customers are happy and well fed. Only then can you take the necessary chunk time to really focus ony our own needs. But until then, you shouldn’t totally neglect yourself. You wouldn’t want to hurt future growth for near term gains.
The point of all this is that I have updated my blog to the latest release. I was running an older internal build of Subtext for a while which had a couple bugs that would make themselves evident. The last thing I wanted is for someone to see the announcement on my site, notice the bug, and make a judgement based on that.
The noticeable difference is that there is now a comment preview feature as well as a recent comments display on the right. I’ll probably be tweaking my skin in the near future adding a few fun goodies.