Every once in a while, persistence pays off. Not often, but when it happens, I need to sit back and savor the moment. I have just installed the latest version of BlogEngine.net (V1.5.0.7 as I write) and I am loving the results! This tool delivers the responsiveness I should have gotten from my Wordpress blog, but just wasn't happening. With Wordpress, the site would bog down with just me reloading it, and I could never get SuperCache to work on the shared IIS server. It was slow to the point of me not being comfortable driving traffic to the site, which is not good for a blog, right? More...

What to say? Here is the new blog. It’s shiny, it still has that new blog smell, and it is really light on content. Why am I so late to the party? Why start a traditional blog now when microblogging is all of the rage? I think there were a few reasons for this, some business driven and some personal. More...