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I haven't updated this blog in a long time, as I've been so busy with other projects. Since I'm no longer halfway around the world from many of those who would care to hear about my day-to-days, and I have fewer causes to champion since Barack Obama became Mr. President, I'm not sure where this blog quite fits in.

Here's what I'm up to now:

Though it's been moving slower than I'd prefer, brewmance.com is wrapping up alpha development. The founding purpose of the site is to help cultivate a relationship between casual beer drinkers and beers worth drinking. There is such a rich, rapidly growing selection of micro- and craft brews in the United States but the interested audience is still small. While we can't change the fact that most bars only carry mediocre (and now foreign owned) big brands, we can encourage users to seek out a selection of beers they can fall in love with.

Our access barrier is intentionally low: answer 5 questions about your tastes and personality and we'll return you 5 beers from our proprietary engine. You can then optionally register for a Brewmance profile (using your Google Account) and save your tasting queue for future access. Having a profile makes it easy to review beers you've tried and receive additional recommendations based on your feedback.

Head over to brewmance.com now to sign up for a notification when our alpha preview is ready for testing.

I've also been auditing the iPhone Application Programming (CS193P) course at Stanford through iTunes U. My very limited history in C development has helped, but overall it's been a huge learning curve to overcome. I can't stress how rewarding it's been so far, though. Assuming the demand inertia for native applications keeps growing, these will be valuable skills to keep up.

Another wedding season is here, and I've got some real exciting and beautiful events on my plate for this summer. In addition, we're evangelizing our services on our blog and Facebook.

So I'll try to keep this space updated with updates on the above 3 projects and whatever new comes by. If you're still subscribed, or happened to browse through, thanks for reading!