In a previous life, I was a developer. Every once in a while I dabble again, and start messing with things that I probably should just leave to the professionals. I think with a little bit of actual training and some classes, I might even be dangerous… (ah, who am I kidding? I’m already dangerous!)

Been working on a number of projects this week — at work, it’s been ad serving, modifying Javascripts, creating email signup forms and a few other things. Some personal projects include setting up some new analytics on my blog, exploring/modifying some WordPress templates and trying to find a good audio player plugin so I can start streaming my “song of the day” instead of relying on LaLa.com. (I’m almost there…) I may have settled on the XSPF player but I’m not 100% sold yet.

I know if I dedicated more time to learning some additional languages (code) it would be very helpful to me (personally and professionally), but I don’t really have the time. Something would definitely have to take a back seat, and I’m not prepared right now to give up family time, church time or free time needed to keep the side business going. And I’m STILL trying to get back to writing songs again… argh.

Is there anything you wish you could spend more time on or a skill you could perfect?

Comments, please. Then listen to my pretty song below.

CodeMonkey by Jonathan Coulton

Side Note: Did you know the Winter Olympics start today? I didn’t either…