Tonight I've launched a new website, shuteyes.org. Shut Eyes represents my heart and my drive in life and programming. I am a creative person. I constantly feel the need to express myself, to say something through some medium. I'm not a visual person. So I can't design a site or paint a picture. So I express through music and programming. Though programming is technical, it's the communication and expressiveness that I'm really drawn to. Shut Eyes is the kind of site that I love to develop. I spend a lot of time during my normal business day programming in other types of things like scripts for text processing and spreadsheet parsing. I'm innately bad at those forms of the discipline because it's not expressive to me. I lose the art there. I think it must be where other people find it, but not me.

It is obviously still in the early stages. There aren't a whole lot of features right now. But that was on purpose. I wanted to get something usable out then build on it. I can definitely use help with testing especially from IE7 users (sorry IE6 folks, no soup for you, upgrade you know you want to). Use the contact form to tell me what sucks. I really do want to know.

Lastly, Shut Eyes is part of a larger vision in my world. It is the start of what will become the Shut Eyes Foundation. A means to filter aid to the helpless when Lark and The Owl are touring at full speed. In some small way Christ's hand in the world. We hope to use it as a face, an avenue, a symbol of the love that the poor and broken aren't forgotten. Please enjoy the site.