As some of you may have noticed, I haven't posted in a couple of weeks.  Part of the reason for that is I only want to write things here that are on topic and interesting to you.  A lot of blogs I read have a tendency to get off topic or rant about personal topics which degrades the quality of the site content and I don't want to do that.  I would rather write one post per month than set a goal to write 7 articles per week that have no value (and yes, some blogs such as the gawker family of blogs do just that - providing quantity rather than quality). 

The other piece of it is that it takes time to research hosting providers and implement a blog platform with that provider.  I can't say I'm terribly impressed with BlogEngine.net (which is what's used currently on this site), but it works for the time being.  More specifically, there are a lot of problems surrounding IIS's latest implementation and not all of the blog software out there has been updated to be compatible with the newer, more modular IIS and it can take a fair bit of effort to get things working.  After installing the software, I'll play around with it for a bit and see if I like it, but in a lot of cases it's still a bit of work to customize it to my liking.   Even then I might decide it doesn't measure up and then I end up looking for something else...

I'm also aware that some parts of the site aren't working right - like the rss feed and the email functions.  I'll take a look at that in the near future and see if I can get it figured out, but I can't say it's high priority at the moment since this was intended to be temporary.  In the mean time, feel free to post a comment - I do read them from time to time.

Update: I've set comments to moderated.  There are a lot of posts coming from one subnet and most of them don't make a lot of sense to me.  I don't mean to offend anyone, but either your english is so bad that it doesn't make sense or your post likely has some ulterior motive.  In any case, the comments aren't helping the quality of the site content, so I felt I had to put an end to it.  Apologies if it really is just a language barrier, though.

About a week ago, I suddenly discovered that my hosting account was suspended. Apparently at the end of November, my credit card expired and that's about the time the site was suspended. You might then wonder why ti took over a month to get the site back online and the answer to that is my hosting provider didn't exactly do their due diligence to let me know about the situation. I'm not naming names, but if you're reading this - you know who you are.  No, it wasn't GoDaddy - I cancelled my account with my prior hosting provider because we couldn't come to an agreement.
 
So - that's how we got to where we are today. I'm playing around with some different blog software - mostly to see what's currently out there. I still have my original blog software and all of the information that was on the site so I'm planning on bringing it back at some point. However, in the mean time, it doesn't hurt to see if there's something I like better that's also open source.
 
One thing to note is that since I really only just started with this software, there are some things that probably won't work correctly out of the box. I'm sure we'll get it all ironed out soon enough though...