How I Learned To Leave Tro­mav­ille and Find My Own Sanity…

In Feb­ru­ary of this year, I sent an e-mail to my then-boss Lloyd Kauf­man, and it began with the fol­low­ing sentence:

I feel as though my time with Troma may be com­ing to an end.

It was one of the hard­est things I've ever writ­ten or said, for that mat­ter but it was a feel­ing that remained just as true through­out the remain­der of my tenure with the com­pany as it was on the day I wrote it.

After five very long years with the com­pany and with peo­ple who I care for very dearly, eight months after the writ­ing of that e-mail, I resigned. No fan­fare, no regrets.

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I would make a big­ger fan­fare about it, but I'm not sure if it really deserves it until I have some­thing more to show for it, but here it is:

Fotog is a PHP-based bit of code that will allow just about any per­son with a web­site to cre­ate and man­age photo gal­leries on their per­sonal site. This project has been in very, very quiet devel­op­ment since sev­eral months ago but after leav­ing Troma (and I'll address that seper­ately, soon), I'm now find­ing myself with more time to actu­ally devote to cod­ing it.

If you visit the site now, there is a very, very (read: crappy) basic ver­sion of Fotog avail­able as a demo, but of course, many of the planned fea­tures are not there as I just started active devel­op­ment about a week ago. Any­who, Fotog.raphy.org will serve as a dash­board for all things Fotog, so I prob­a­bly won't make too many more men­tions of it here. To fol­low that par­tic­u­lar saga, sub­scribe to the RSS feed over there.

The com­ment boards are open on the site, so feel free to con­tinue there. But yeah, the text win­dow beckons.