Dave Viner's Weblog

My new site

After leaving yahoo, I dorked around for a while with my daughter... just clearing my head and staying away from computers. i found it really amazing how refreshing a 1 month hiatus from touching a computer can be. i still had business school and did some minor house projects, but i tried to stay away from computers for a bit.

Then, I ran into 2 old friends at a coffee shop and starting working with them on http://www.aboutmybaby.com. It's an online scrapbooking website that lets people post videos, photos and stories about their children, and lets visitors sign a guestbook, leave comments, and join a mailing list for site updates. I *love* working on this site for several reasons. First, I totally dig looking at pictures of my daughter. Yeah, it's narcissistic - and I don't really care. Second, it's fun to get back to basics on a website. Third, it's fun to be one of three, and the one who's doing the most work on it day-to-day. So I deal with everything from ordering hardware, to thinking of new projects, to coding backend stuff, to frontend css/js stuff.

If you have kids, check it out. It's a really cool site and I've personally found it a great way to share memories with my friends and family around the country.

Of course, you should also check out my daughter at http://aureliaviner.aboutmybaby.com.