I think I’ve set a new record so far for non-updating in the month of May. I feel like I’m either getting lazier with the blog or just getting busier in general and the two are definitely proving to be mutually exclusive. Having done the amateur blogging “thing” for the past 3 years now (mid May 2007 when I left for Great Britain) I’m constantly amazed when I find other talented bloggers and see how they can juggle jobs and near-daily writing. Maybe my hands are just getting old and stiff. That probably can’t be good in my line of work.

Technically, the content is (currently) much like the former. But the potential for greatness is much higher!

I just finished off the Cycling Jordan website yesterday and made it live. The new site has some cool updates which I mention on its front page. Like the EntityGreen.com and WhitmanAcademy.org sites, they’re all based on the incredible WordPress open-source engine. I have to hand it to those guys, they really have brought personal web publication to the masses; I can crank out sites in 2-3 weeks with their software if I wanted to.

Saad and I first started working on this site back in January, though. I was really busy with some other projects at the time, namely the Training for Trainers (ToT) educational program for Iraqi vocational trainers. I gave him a ballpark estimate of a couple months, and although I got it finished within that time frame, between our two busy schedules and our friend Sari, who will be managing the site, we never got around to making it live until just now.

The old site was also WordPress, but the company that designed it were incompetent and also never taught Saad how to update it himself

So, if you’re ever in Jordan and looking for the best cycling experience that the country can offer. I’ll go so far as to say indisputably, because the other two (Tareef and Bike Rush) aren’t even in the same level of competition and don’t even sell bicycles.