It's easy to rest on your laurels. It takes no effort to settle for what you have got, and what you have achieved.

I've been thinking for a while, that it's time to raise the bar at DMfM. Whilst I was unemployed, ranting about life's frustrations was a useful vent. It kept my mind busy, and allowed me to take out my frustration at being made redundant, on an unsuspecting world.

However, life has (thankfully) moved on since then. I'm working again, in a job I love, that is a good blend of technology and creative work. I'm learning new skills, and am hungry for more knowledge.

With this in mind, it's time that DMfM moved on too. It's not going to go anywhere, it's not stopping, it's just going (hopefully) to be better.

I'm not saying that if someone really brasses me off big time, I won't pen a tersely-worded memoradum to them, and post it here, but there will be less whining about stuff that, frankly, doesn't really matter.

For a while, I got feedback that rants were a big crowd-pleaser, and so I gave it full reign, however, I don't do this site to get ratings, so to hell with it.

So now there will be (hopefully) more humour, and fewer "dear diary" entries. Blogging is a broad medium these days, and whilst an online diary is fine for some people, I dont' want this site to be that.

I'm also going to do some maintenance on the site, adding useful pages, and improving existing ones, for example, the Image Gallery.

I'm not going to go back and delete bad articles, or censor comments. There are over 500 articles in DMfM, and I just don't have to time to go through them all.

This improvement isn't about looking back, it's about looking forward.

So Why Are You Telling Us This?
I'm telling you this, so that you'll give me feedback, to let me know if things improve. I'm also doing it, so that I have to live up to the promise!

So, stick with me. In time DMfM should become a better read, and should more accurately reflect, that of which I am capable.