LetsKillDave

I want to thank you all for your patience while I got my act together to start blogging again.  So many things contributed to this delay, but mostly I blame Twitter and Facebook   Let’s face it, micro-blogging is certainly changing the way that blogs are (or aren’t) relevant. 

As an example: My blog.  Let’s be honest, aside from a few controversial statements, my blog during my years at Microsoft had mostly been a benign series of announcements.  Sure, you would often get “The Scoop” from me, but as Dave Barry put it, my announcements were mostly adjacent to the business of gaming.  My current job puts me, in many ways, in that same situation.  However, my personal blog won’t overlap anymore with my work events. 

That’s a long way of telling most of you that my blog is about to become really boring. Or not.

I don’t even bother naming my employer in my disclaimer or my About page.  Not that it’s hard to figure out, it’s just that I feel I can keep a better distance this way.  This helps me a little more as well, as you will find that my future posts will be more wide-ranging on topics that matter to me.  Gaming is important, but I’m a patriotic American as well (in the Anti-Federalist bent), so you’ll be seeing more posts that cover topics related to politics, current events, and my shooting hobby.  But mostly I’ll still talk about gaming, because it’s what I love the most.  Don’t worry though, as I’ll be more active about tagging my posts, so you won’t have to read anything that might make your blood boil

On a slightly different topic, you will notice that the blog has literally been rebooted in the sense that my old posts are gone.  It’s not like I’m trying to hide anything, but after a painfully broken migration from Community Server to Graffiti, I decided it was better to leave my archives in the hands of Google’s page caching, rather than painfully try to import from Graffiti into WordPress (leaving my old Community Server posts even more broken).  Switching to WordPress was necessitated for two reasons:

1. I grew impatient with Telligent’s lack of progress on Graffiti.  The people at Telligent are smart, dedicated, and helpful people.  More than once they have shown a willingness to bend over backwards to help out with problems I’ve had, but the current economy has seemed to force Telligent to focus less on community-oriented help and more on revenue-generating enterprise businesses.  There’s nothing wrong with that at all.  It’s just that the free Graffiti CMS product has had very few updates, and I can no longer wait for fixes.  Sorry guys!
2. WordPress had all the features I wanted and I was able to find a hoster that was within my very modest budget (bluehost.com).

So there you have it.  Now, let’s get (re)started.