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)!

According to LinkRank (a PubSub service that Scoble pointed me (and you) to), my blog (this one) is in the top million sites... for now. Apparently, the rankings are a little more dynamic here at the bottom, with my rank improving some 71,000 places since yesterday.

I'm a bad blogger, I know... bad. But, being busy (and getting paid for it) is better than having more time to blog (and doing it for free) - at least my wife thinks so. :P

- G

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Well, I noticed from my stats at www.squaretwo.net that a lot of you just weren't switching your RSS feed over as quickly as I'd hoped (granted, it's about as quickly as I expected).  So, I changed my RSS feed at the old site to just redirect to the feed here at the new site.  No fancy XML rewriting or any of that, just a quick Response.Redirect(...) call.  IE pops a security warning, but so far NewsGator and SharpReader don't have a problem with it, and that covers about 90% of my traffic.  So, if you find yourself in the other 10%, please, let me know.

The next step is to import all of my old blog's entries into dasBlog.  Thus far, I've gotten SQL Server to format my entries into XML... now I just need to figure out how to import them without royally screwing up dasBlog.  I don't figure this'll take that long, and I'll probably deal with it tomorrow... I just don't feel like it right now.

- G

P.S. One of my best friends now has a blog... titled “How it should be” (in the blogroll on the right), he says it'll cover coding, money management, and other assorted things.  I can't vouch for how long he'll keep at it, but I think it's worth a read for as long as he does... go subscribe, it's not like one more blog in your aggregator's going to kill you... is it?

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This is going to be the last blog post here at www.Squaretwo.net. I've finally gotten blogs.Squaretwo.net stylized the way I want it, and it's ready to go.

To anyone still using their own cobbled-together blogging app - unless you're planning on making a real app for other folks to use, take a serious look at either dasBlog (my new app), .Text, or any other widely-used app... I don't know about you, but between my paying work, open-source projects I'm part of, and learning Longhorn and ASP.Net 2.0 development, I just don't have the time to fix the bugs and develop the features I want in my own app.

So, I'm gone... from here, anyway. I'll try to figure a way to import this blog's entries into the new one, but don't hold your breath. In any case, subscribe to the new blog's RSS feed here.

It's been fun, see you on flipside.

- G

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I've decided to give in to my procrastination and add comments (well, the *possibility* for comments - you'll need to provide the actual quips)... Hopefully in the next week or so I can string together some free time.

I'm also trying to decide whether or not to keep leaving just the first bit of my posts in the RSS feed (with the full text on the website), or to include the full text in the feed itself... decisions, decisions... Decisions that need to be made only providing that the hurricane headed straight to my place doesn't knock me back into the 40's for any decent amount of time, that is.

- G

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