Comments on: Returning from a hiatus

By: fwolf

fwolf — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:51:47 +0000

well … you always heal much faster if your beloved one is around/with you :)

At least thats my personal experience.
I’ve tended to format my very personal entries differently than my normal posts, so maybe you’d like to do this too.

Or just do some MT hacking and create a seperate blog frontend for your very own personal thoughts. ;)

Just my .02 cents,
cu, w0lf.

By: M.

M. — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:04:25 +0000

Congratulations on the engagement Doug! Good to see you’re back, and hope to see more blog entries from you this year ;-)

By: motherduce

motherduce — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:34:01 +0000

Congratulations on the engagement. Best of luck to you both. Glad to see you back here. Let us read a few of those text files, at least, if not all! :-)

By: Ian Lloyd

Ian Lloyd — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:56:34 +0000

Congrats Doug! You’ll understand my months of radio silence and general inactivity then :-) But that’s me done and married now, so I can get on and do things *other* than wedding plans! Hurrah! Look forward to raising a glass with you in a few weeks

By: KG

KG — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:57:22 +0000

Congratulations and Welcome Back!

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:46:12 +0000

Hey Doug, doubt you’ll ever lose your readership. We come here often to pay homage to your colour palette and steal whatever CSS we need.

Congrats on the engagement! Just don’t spend too much time on the wedding website.

By: Joerg Petermann

Joerg Petermann — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:08:28 +0000

Nice to read your again! :)

By: Noel Hurtley

Noel Hurtley — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:27:27 +0000

Welcome back, Mr. Bowman!

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:03:23 +0000

Heh, let’s see: congratulations; exporting Tim Tams is a major cottage industry here; all creative endeavor can benefit from a break; and as for readership… well, isn’t this what RSS is for?! :)

By: Mani Sheriar

Mani Sheriar — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:37:53 +0000

Congratulations on the engagement! I too recently became engaged and I knkow what a happy time it is. =)

I just wanted to say a quick hello. I have read your blog for years and have never commented. I wanted to tell you that yours was the first web-design related blog I ever started reading. You were the first web-designer I ever came to view as a “celebrity.” You were the first beacon of this new fangled “web standards” thing that shone my way. Yours was the first CSS Zen Garnden entry that I ever truly fell in love with.

When I first read you I was inifinitely envious of your design capabilities and couldn’t even wrap my little mind around something like css sliding doors. Now I am a full-time freelance web designer considered an expert at css by my clients with my own blog and four entries to The Garden. Wow. How far we have come together.

I’m so glad that you are back. When I first started reading you I had a stupid question about image replacement and you took the time to answer me personally. I even naively asked if I could see your stylesheets … just for personal study, I promised! You had to explain to me that I could view the source of your site and look at the css links at the top of your pages and follow the paths and get the style sheets myself. You were very kind.

Thanks for everything, Doug!

By: Faruk Ates

Faruk Ates — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:11:25 +0000

Big congratulations on the engagement! That’s fantastic news, I’m very happy for both of you, and I’m glad your back recovery was much speedier this time around.

Welcome back. :-)

By: Peter Asquith

Peter Asquith — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:06:06 +0000

Congratulations and fantastic to have you back!

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:12:45 +0000

You can purchase Tim Tams at the Real Canadian Superstore in Canada

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:44:46 +0000

Doug,

Glad to hear everything is okay. Actually, they’re much better than okay, aren’t they? Congratulations to you and your finacee.

I’m (selfishly) happy that you’re back because I always learn something from my visits to Stopdesign. I will admit to going through withdrawals at one point.

But enough about me — glad you’re back and happy.

By: Brade

Brade — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:24:36 +0000

Doug, congrats and welcome back! That’s great news, dude. (The engagament, not the back injury, natch.) That’s one of the things I hate about “blogs” — you feel obligated to update them rather than just waiting for true inspiration to strike. Sometimes less is more.

By: jason cook

jason cook — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:14:36 +0000

Doug,

Just a quick congrats to you (and your fiance) on your engagement. Enjoy!

(me & mine are glad to see you’re writing again, too)
-Jason

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:43:57 +0000

Congratulations!
&
Welcome back!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:44:52 +0000

I need more Tim Tams. Please. Oh for one more joyous Tim Tam Slam. Mmmmmm.

By: Bill Abel

Bill Abel — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:39:30 +0000

I’m one those ‘casual readers’ who thought about asking around if you were ok.

Getting married is a huge life-changing event. Take some more breaks when you need them.

And, thanks for all the ideas and knowledge you share.

By: Mikhail Bozgounov

Mikhail Bozgounov — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:41:35 +0000

I agree with all! (Especially with Dan and angelday true;-) Congratulations, first! Nice to hear from you, again! :-) We do care! And... yes, I was very happy, too, to see "Stopdesign lit up bold today" ;-) Now just waiting to read more... :-)