When I first learned of Twitter, I thought it was the most idiotic thing I had ever heard of.  My thinking was similar to that of the suits in the photo above.  Who gives a flying flip about the fact that I’m at the gas station or grocery store, or, God forbid, that I’m headed to the golf course?

But after reading about it a little more, I realized the potential.  Not for having all my friends know where I am or what I’m doing every second of the day, but for the transmission of information about other things.  I read a lot, and I’m constantly coming across articles of interest.  My first thought is almost always, I should blog about that.  Then I realize that the piece really isn’t worthy of an entire long blog post.

When we first started the website, I figured I could get the info out by putting it in the News Headlines section of the front page, but I soon realized that almost no one was reading the news headlines I put up.  How did I figure this out?  By putting up a news headline about, say, a new study that came out, then having 15 commenters ask me if I had heard of this same new study.

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I have been dilatory in posting over the past few days and embarrassingly dilatory about approving comments.  I’m way, way behind, but I’ll get caught up ultimately.  So, if you have a comment doing time in comment Purgatory, don’t despair.  I will get to it.  Ultimately.

My excuse for not devoting my normal amount of attention to this blog is that I’ve been extremely busy as of late.  MD and I made a quick trip to Seattle to work on our world-changing project, then came back and spent a couple of days at the zoo that is Expo West (more about which momentarily), then the Seattle team came to us and we continued to work.  During all this, MD had a concert in which she had to perform Mozart’s Requiem and Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (my favorite piece of choral music) along with a couple of lesser pieces.  And tomorrow we drive back to Tahoe.  So, we’ve been busy little beavers and this blog has suffered.

Expo West has got to be the world’s largest natural foods expo.  It takes place every year at about this time in Anaheim.  And every year at about this time we drag ourselves to it.  The photo at the top of this blog represents one tiny little portion of this gathering.  To see how huge it is, take a look at the photo below of the map of the thing.

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Usually there is enough stupidity rearing its ugly head in the medical literature to keep me busy full time trying to deal with it, so I don’t ever run out of stuff to blog on.  The problem seems to be an overabundance of material, not a lack.  It seems that every time I’m getting warmed up to write one of the posts that I’ve been planning on writing, some researcher or drug company comes out with something that demands a post, so I abandon whatever I’m working on to get to the more current issue.  I know all the things I would really like to post on, but I don’t know exactly what you readers would like to read about.

Here’s your chance.

Use the comment section to make suggestions for issues you would like to see covered in blog posts over this next year.  I can’t promise that I can get to all of them or even most of them, but I would be extremely interested in learning what it is you want to see from me.  If you see that someone else has already posted a comment about what you would like to see, go ahead and second it.  The more requests I have for a specific topic, the more likely I’ll be to pursue it.

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I’m going to put up a couple of short posts one after the other in an effort to get your input on a couple of issues.  First, MD and I are in the process of redesigning our website and blogs.  Instead of using one of the available blog templates available through WordPress we’re having our own design.  We’ll have better integration among the blog, the website, and all the features that are carefully hidden in our blog/website right now.  And – we hope – these hidden gems won’t be quite so hidden.  As it stands now, the new design should be functional in a few weeks.

My question to you is what features would you like to see.  All I have done so far is look for features that make life easier on me, but since you all are the readers, what would make life easier on you?

Please use the comment section to let me know what changes you would like to see.  And please don’t go off topic on this one because I want to have all the suggestions in one place without having to sift through a bunch of off-topic comments.  Thanks in advance.

I was searching through Google and I came upon this Protein Power Pictures site.  I remember when it was active back about the time The Protein Power LifePlan first came out in 2000, but I hadn’t seen it since.  I don’t know if it is still actively monitored by anyone on the PP Forum or if it has lain fallow for 6 or 7 years.  Anyone out there know? Neither MD nor I have anything to do with it.

If you click on the icon for the PPLP on the left of the site, you are taken to our current website but through a different URL.  It is the old URL- eatprotein.com – we used before we got control of proteinpower.com.

What I can tell you is that there are some pretty amazing before and after photos.  If you’re looking for inspiration, take a look at this one and this one. Or simply cruise through the pictures list.

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