That’s right, today is the day! I’ve kept this baby under the hat for quite some time and today I am finally launching! I will be giving individuals rides to anywhere they want to visit in North America! I even pay for half the gas! You can find all the details and information over on the summerrideshare.com website. I have a live video streaming to the internet from the vehicle as well as GPS tracking. Doesn’t get much better eh?

Anyways, tell everyone you know, show some support and link love. I appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm and efforts to help my project be a success!

Go to Summer Ride Share’s Website!!

My site will be “updateless” for the next month..

Saturday, Kimberly and I visited the Tribune Lofts downtown. One of Tulsa’s first and still, one of Tulsa’s only Urban living, loft-style living environments available. I phoned the offices of American Realty Group last week to discuss the oppurtunity to live in one of their available lofts. They said they had some availability and I could check them out. This was a wonderful surprise, considering when I spoke to them in November and December of last year, they were planning to sell the building outright.

I guess the Historical Society has a hold on the selling process and is forcing ARG to hold onto it for a bit longer. This is great, because it is going to give me an oppurtunity to get into the building and set myself on the line for first right to purchase the loft, I think. Either way, I am happy. Saturday we visit the building and got a feel for the environment. Its an absolutely gorgeous building and the interior has been remodeled and is really classy.

Personable content is something that seems to have started lacking from my website. Over time I have found myself writing less and less about my personal endeavors, relationships and adventures; focusing primarily on business, projects and technology. However, it is time for you, my loyal visiting crowd to put your minds at ease with a little personal life of Justin Shattuck rehabilitation 101.

First, I apologize to those visitors who are friends and anticipate updates on my present day activities and life. I’m positive I have bored you with tales of scripting and a vast array of techy gobble-de-gook content. In a sense, this update should cover just about all the topics you might be curious about.

Following Christmas I entered into a relationship with a beautiful, caring and absolutely uber-awesome girl named Kimberly. She provides me with every element in life that I require to be happy, a cold environment, crushed chips under the door while I work and the occasional lashing with a stiff switch. Just kidding. This girl is the epitome of wonderful. Beginning with her birthday, followed by weeks of wonderful days and perfect evenings, we found ourselves inseperable.

Initially, when I asked her out on a date, she denied my request and told me we should just chill. That is exactly what we did. We chilled so much that we found ourselves wrapped up in one anothers arms, trying to stay warm. She gets cold very easily and I get warm very easily, therefore, we have a nice medium between us that levels it out.

There are tons of reasons as to why we care and love one another so much; despite the refreshing personality one another brings to the table. We’ve both been in similar situations, enjoy very similar activities and share important interests. We have known of one another for quite a long time, however, we never really spoke or tried to get to know one another. We are in a very comfortable relationship and honestly, it feels freaking great.

Besides my uber new relationship, I have numerous new ventures in which I am taking on. In the last two weeks I have decided to purchase two new websites that are going to be built upon over the next two months. These two web properties are merging, under my excellent leadership into one elite website. The details for this project will soon follow; time providing.

I’ve been working extremely hard on various other projects, including my map data project for mobile gps and various backend projects for clients. I’m planning to release a few new plugins very soon amongst the Wordpress community and possibly finish up my previous Wordpress theme, version 3, for public release in early March.

All things considered, life is treating me very well. Between the projects that will keep me busy through mid-April and the fact that I finally have a refreshing, loving, caring and extremely-addicting girlfriend, Kimberly, I must admit, I am doing pretty great. Hopefully you are too.

Over the past five days, my website has been listed on various gallery websites, delivering opinions and praise to its glorious design. I am especially pleased with the traffic and overall positive opinions following the listings on such websites, as one must expect.

Shane @ unmatchedstyle.com said:

I’m virtually positive that Justin Shattuck’s WordPress Blog is my new #1 favorite design. Good grief this thing is nice. First of all, this is the Holy Grail for me…

Sites that like me…

• Smashing Magazine
• Digg
• CSS Mania
• CSS Galleries
• Light on Dark
• Screen Fluent
• Screenalicious
• CSS Remix
• Most Inspired
• CSS Container

The downfall..

Is it possible to measure the success of ones web blog design or theme based merely on the amount of times it has been ripped? I’ve noticed three instances in which version four of my website has been ripped. Personally, it sucks! I think it is lame and disrespectful, however, I guess I should be flattered. The design is superb and obviously people like it — otherwise they wouldn’t want to be like me.

So, if you are thinking about ripping off my site, why don’t you wait. I’ll release something similar for your pansy butts to use. Be respectful of ones hard work, dedication and the like; find something else!

Finding yourself lonely late at night? Fiending for the next wonderful update from yours truly? Wonderful! In the mean time, you don’t have to visit every day to get that wonderful content. Simply subscribe! On every page of my website is a button on the top right of the navigation panel that says Subscribe to RSS, click it and subscribe a way. If you’re unsure what syndication and subscriptions are, read the syndication page.

I want more subscribers, so I am asking — subscribe!

For my returning visitors, you might notice thats the direction of this website is beginning to broaden and cover a few additional topics outside of my existing entertaining life. I’ve been monitoring the search terms and success of my web traffic and now feel as though I am in a position in which I can speak about my opinions on a variety of subjects.

Therefore, I am going to begin writing articles surrounding security, programming, user interaction, and a few other areas, excluding the ever-hated politics and religion. I’m going to devote as much time as I possibly can to my blog and the routine of writing articles regularly and updating with unique, concise content.

As a visitor I am going to solicit the opinions, suggestions and feedback elements of your brains to assist me in creating more content for you to enjoy. If you feel my writing style is awkward, well keep it to yourself. I’m not going to dumb down my content or knowledge for the complete newb, however, I would like to cover areas of technology and offer up useful experience to those who are a little behind my expertise. Sound good?

Wonderful! Thats that, I hope you enjoy the new JustinShattuck dot com, I’ve noticed that the CSS galleries are praising the new design and I am really pleased with the resulting traffic from the new design, year and content! Good night!

Early November was the launch for a contest, attempting to attract the talent and skills of a few great designers. The mission was simple, redesign my existing website with my content, mood, feelings and talents in mind. I wanted a site that could really explain who I am at first glance. Although the entries were few and the submissions were not exactly what I truely wanted; I appreciated the attempts.

Just as thought I was starting to become comfortable with the new justinshattuck dot com design, I started having a few second thoughts as to whether or not it is accomplishing the goal in which it was originally intended. This site has grown from a medium to share my thought provoking and stomach turning opinions into a platform in which I am able to use to reach deep within the realms of the internet to leave, what I like to consider long-lasting impressions of blabber!

Usually, I am never early or never late, just about on time.  However, for the relaunch of this website I have actually found that I am a day or so ahead of schedule.  I have been cranking out tweaks for various issues on the website for a week or so now and I have finally determined that the website is functional enough to relaunch.  Therefore, I would like to welcome everyone to the new justinshattuck dot com!