It's been quite awhile since I've posted.  I admit it, I'm not a very prolific blogger - newer job, new baby, personal projects, blah blah blah.  Really, if I was inspired I would have time to take 30 minutes a few times a week to post something.  But due to laziness (or inertia) I haven't been.  I sometimes wonder if I should just make this a more static site and not even put up the pretense of being a blogger.  But... I think I will continue to pretend to be an occasional blogger.  After all, I've been pretending for close to 6 years - why abandon now? 

With that out of the way, I thought I'd post a few thoughts on the future of this site.  As anyone who cares knows, I am running this site off a blogging / CMS platform from Telligent known as Graffiti.  Telligent had let this product fester for close to a year without any updates.  It seemed Graffiti was slowly being killed off since the "new" Telligent seems to hate software that megacorps won't buy.  Lo and behold, earlier this month Telligent gave the product the potential for new life by releasing it as open source.  So, at least the product isn't completely dead... yet.  A lot of people had already abandoned it, and if I hadn't been preoccupied with other things in life, I may have already left the platform.

So where does that leave the site?  Well, I'm still pondering leaving Graffiti.  One of the coolest features of the product (friendly URL's) is done through an unattractive method - the creation of separate folders for each post.  Now that routing is a feature of ASP.net, it seems this is no longer needed.  And even though the source code for Graffiti is now available, who's to say that the product won't die?  Sure, I could work with the code myself... but I'm not sure I want to go down that path.  So let's just say that I am evaluating my options with regards to the software.

Secondly, the site is due for a makeover.  The "theme" has been in place more or less for several years.  It isn't bad, but any designer could tell that a non-designer hacked it together.  I'm pretty strong in web UI (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), but I have no true design skills.  So, I may look at some CSS templates and see if I can come up with a new layout.

Third, and this is probably the most important - I want to change the content.  I have some ideas of what kind of content I want to keep on the site that is more relevant to my professional career and interests.  That may mean going through old posts and flat-out removing them (I will keep them archived, but only on my personal machines).  URL's probably will change, but I will try to do redirects when possible (particularly for the few useful tech posts that I have).  That may mean some of my links will no longer be valid in search engines, but in all honesty I'm more interested in getting the site to a place I want.  Since I don't really have any loyal readers, nor do I make any money on this site; I have the leeway to do this.

Merry Christmas to all!