Given that Aspire is really a tool to help people find balance in their life and priorities, it's perhaps not as odd to tell the following story as it would be in the traditional formal stuffy software company blog.
Very late in 2008, just as Aspire 1.0 was being completed, my wife and I made the fairly major decision that we were going to move across Canada, from Guelph, Ontario to Edmonton, Alberta. It was a difficult choice, meaning we'd leave a really great place to live and her a great job, but it would allow us to be much closer to family (needless to say, when we moved out east 10 years ago, pre-9/11, flying wasn't nearly the hassle and time sink it is today, plus we lived much closer to an airport).
Needless to say, all the various tasks involved with putting our house up for sale, job hunting, navigating provincial licensing authorities and professional organizations, and planning for the transition itself ended up taking way more time than we'd planned. That meant we had to make some difficult choices, and put a few things on hold for a while. Aspire ended up being one of them. So if you were wondering about the radio silence here over the last month or two, that's what happened.
The good news is that we're well over the hump, and as of a few days ago are nicely settled into temporary accommodations in our "new" home city. As things get ramped back up over the next few weeks, I'm itching to get back to working on Aspire, and have a long list of things I want to add or improve.
So my sincere apologies for the delays and quiet, and thanks to everyone for their patience. I hope that in the not too distant future I'll be able to make up for all the lost time and then some!
