So I've re-launched this site. This time, God willing, will be the last time. Let's make this as short and sweet as possible and therein defy all reason and tradition. Why am I back? Simple. You can't keep an addict sober for long, even when they hate their own addictions. Especially when they hate their own addictions. Plus, there's just so much good stuff to talk about. Finally, I wanted a single place where I could share all those goodies I've been working on all this time, where I can rant about the crap that keeps happening (ahem, I'm watching the State of the Union Address now... coincidence?) all around me. Why did you go away? I didn't really. I just got sick of it. Like any addict, you get relatively tired of your disease and you begin to loathe the very thing that motivates you to use. It seemed that everyone caught the blogging bug, including an old friend who never understood the whole thing. Now he blogs daily and works for a company who writes blogging software. Everyone has taken notice, and like the spoiled brat that I can indeed be from time to time, I felt snookered. That the secret was out, the toy found itself into all the kids' toyboxes, and with that the interest was damn near gone. Plus, I got pissed that blogger lost about 3.5 years of posts and that I received not a single reply when I asked for help. For fuck's sake, I'm a paid member. I power Blogger, and those cats can't even give me my own journal entries back. None of them. Not a one. What are the rules? As usual, there aren't any, so don't lose your channel-changer. What are the tools? Movable Type for the blogging platform. Its the best around if you're looking for a flexible, hosted (and self-maintained) solution. Yes, I'm a .Net developer and no, it's not a .Net or Microsoft product. Most likely everything else on this domain will be written using the .Net framework. On that being inconsistent from a techno-ideological and somewhat contradictory perspective: Who gives a rat's ass. I've used damn near every blogging tool out there, including the one major .Net hosted solution, and they all sucked in comparison. If the inconsistencies, errors, and un-needed bells and whistles didn't piss me off, the things I felt I had to sacrifice to maintain a non-contradictory or consistently religious perspective ended up frustrating me to the point of not even wanting to write in the first place. MT provides me a simple interface, with a linking tool and a host of other quickies. Plus, the shit works. I'll just be the odd man out and host it on a Windows server, where I can also run my C# code. So here it is, in black and white.