Decided to give the ol' blog a MUCH needed facelift; wish I could say I had anything to do with the theme, but alas - my sister got all the artistic ability.  Also took the opportunity to upgrade to BlogEngine.Net 1.5 - a solid upgrade to a very simple, straightforward blog platform.

That’s Yet Another New Start. Yes, it’s once again time for me to make an effort to get my blogging level back up to pre-PDC03 standards – something easier said than done. I haven’t the slightest clue why, although these days I find it easy to blame Twitter, as it lets me dispatch my spur of the moment thoughts ASAP, eliminating the backlog that would once upon a time add up to a full blog post.

So far, I’ve tackled the problem thusly:

1. Made the long-needed upgrade to BlogEngine.Net 1.4.5.
2. Downloaded the Windows Live Writer 2009 Beta.
3. Realized the BlogEngine/WLW tagging integration isn’t in the latest public release
4. Downloaded & installed AnkhSVN, grabbed the latest copy of the BlogEngine source code, and built it
5. Made the short-needed upgrade to BlogEngine.Net 1.4.5.13.
6. Started writing this post

So far, so good.  This post is also a test of sorts since I’m using new blogging software against a new build of the site, so I’ll wrap things up here.  If all goes well, hopefully *crosses fingers* I’ll follow up with a post with actual useful content (imagine that)!