This year, for the first time ever, I'm participating in the May 1st Reboot. Basically the premise is that you take your site offline for a week (starting later today!) with a nice pink placeholder along the lines of this...

... and then the whole community 'reboots' simultaneously on May 1st with brand new sites. I might be sort of cheating as I just recently redesigned my site, so when I come back, not much will have changed. I'd like to say there might be some nice new tidbits here and there that I've been thinking of implementing, but I think I'm just too busy for it at the moment.

Either way, I'm excited! Some of the coolest web nerds in the world are involved in the project and I found out about it while I was in school a few years ago through a very talented designer/developer by the name of Paul Szypula, whom I believe is responsible for the Flash radness that is the site. It was founded (in part) by another designer whom I really admire, James Widegren, and my very own web-nerd-cool boss has an incredibly inspiring quote floating around on the May 1st site. Are you participating in the reboot? Show me some before and after baby! Don't miss me too much while I'm away...