Nothing for months, and then all this … stuff suddenly appears. What’s going on I hear you ask?
- I bought a copy of Uru in mid-November and didn’t do much of anything else apart from play it. God, it was great.
- Even without Uru, commuting (currently averaging 2? hours/day) leaves me with little time for blogging. My current blogging software only works from home, and I don’t seem to be spending much time there at the moment. I keep notes of things that I’ve found interesting, hence the recent “pointers” postings, but its just linking to other blogs.
- I’m finally doing what I should have done six months ago: writing my own blogging software. This takes even more time that I don’t really have, but its getting there. I currently have an XML-based “filing system”. I’m going to layer some services – feed generation, article sorting, etc. on top of that. The actual output will be generated from inline ASP.net code in a similar way to the current CityDesk setup. There’ll be a rich client (with href deployment) that I can use to post from any PC with the framework installed. I may also have a minimal web interface for situations where I don’t have a .net-enabled machine available.
So that’s the story. I’m sorry for the loss of service, and I hope I’ll manage to keep something going until the software gets built. In the meantime, hang-in there. Okay?