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Hmmm. My last post was September 2011; about 9 months ago. I guess it has been a while. Why the break?

September 2011 was the month my second daughter was born. This one doesn't sleep much.

I still have a busy day job and I have been seriously remodeling my house since I purchased it 2 1/2 years ago.

Nine months and it went in a blink.

While I have stopped writing, I have not stopped thinking. And lately I have been thinking that I should do some more writing.

So let's see if that happens. I need to blow the dust off my blogging tools and publish.

At least it killed mine.

I have started writing a number of posts over the past year but I just never finished.

The simple ideas are posted to FB and the bigger ideas get rough drafts that dont get finished. Between our new house remodeling and my job I just haven't had the energy to write this year.

Maybe next year will be different.

Good grief! My last blog post was in December 2009, like 3 months ago!

It's been a busy new year.

• We bought a house and moved in January.
• No internet for 2 weeks during the move, tons of house tasks after the move.
• I hit the 1 1/2 year mark at Microsoft.
• My work load went through the roof.
• Swine flu made its rounds (although I got a cool vaccination).

Yes, its been a busy few months but there has been a lot to blog about. I have a number of work-related posts to finish up and gaming never stops.

So happy new year in March.

I havent done any work on my blog in many months. There are a lot of changes I have wanted to make but there just hasnt been the time.

Right now I am focused on a single change: connecting my blog posts to my facebook page.

At the moment I am experimenting with an app called NetworkedBlogs. It seems to be what I want but I still cant tell.

While some things last forever, others dont.

Since I started this blog, I have been doing my posts and managing the blog with Excto 2.4 on my Mac. I tried a few other products but this is the one I liked. It had a few quirks but I used it for my Amazon associates links and it just worked for me.

A while back, Ecto got sold to a new company and they brought out Ecto 3.0. I tried it and stuck with 2.4.

But now it looks like Amazon has changed their API and Ecto 2 will no longer do product queries. So if I want to link to Amazon product images, I am forced to update my tools... Dont be surprised if there is a delay as I look into my options here.

Six months ago, I moved my blog to a new webhost. With the holiday break, I set aside some time to fix problems from that last move.

I fixed a number of backend problems but the main change you will notice is the ability to add comments.

You can now comment anonymously using those pesky Captcha words or you can register a permanent account. Previously the only registered accounts I accepted were TypeKey. Now I accept accounts on several different systems. Eventually you will be able to register an account specifically on this blog but currently that feature is broken.

The other thing I fixed was two-part blog postings. To keep the mainpage shorter, I used to post an intro paragraph or two and then you had to follow the continue-link to see the rest of the article. Unfortunately, in the last move the additional blog content was not being shown when you followed the continue links - that is fixed now.