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Gosh, it’s been six months since I’ve said anything on this blog. I was beginning to wonder myself whether I’d ever come back or if this just would become yet another decaying corner of the Internet… Anyway, things have been quiet around here for several reasons. First, there’s just been a lot going on in my world, and blogging (and tweeting and facebooking) has been pretty low on the priority list. None of it is worth broadcasting to the entire world on the Internet, but suffice it to say that it’s been a very heavy year. Second, I...
Things have been quiet around here for a number of reasons. One of the more important was that I really, really, really wanted to get off of the ancient .Text blog engine I’ve been on forever and I was loath to add a lot more content until I could get moved over. I decided to move to Subtext since it was very compatible with .Text (although its migration code for .Text appears to be completely untested as it contained at least one blocking bug and I had to do some of it by hand), but was blocked for a while...
No, not really, just going through another dry spell on the blog. But I have been playing with Twitter, so you can try me there as well: http://twitter.com/paulvick. No promises that I'll keep it up, but...
Just a quick note for those who might care--I haven't given up blogging just yet, even though January was the first time in the history of this blog that I went without saying anything for a month. My wife, kids and I went on a big vacation to the Dominican Republic in January, with a swing by the East Coast for a baptism for good measure, and that took up most of the month! Then, just as I was starting to dig myself out of the hole from that trip, I was off for another week. So needless to say,...
It's amazing how many viruses babies manage to bring into the house. I think we've been down with something pretty much continuously since we got back. Fortunately, we haven't been all sick at once, but this is starting to get a bit old... Things have also been extremely busy around work. I've been working on something that I'm hoping we'll have at least a mention of at MIX07 and will probably have more to say about later in the year. I realize there are some threads that have been left hanging, so I'm going to try and tie them up...
Just for fun, as I was starting at the "Archives" in the left pane started working out what my "post per month" average was per year. It comes out to: 2003: 19.6 PPM (only 6 months of the year, though)2004: 12.3 PPM2005: 9.3 PPM2006: 4.9 PPM (only 11 months so far) As you can see, my average has dropped precipitously this year and I'm in danger of getting awfully close to zero next year if things continue as they have been. The real question is: why has my posting average gone down so much? I mean, I'm not surprised that...
...it turns out the Live search box I tried to put on my blog broke comment submission. It's fixed now (by removing the search box) and you should be able to spam away!
As some may have noticed, the quantity of my blogging output has dropped precipitously in the past few months. This hasn't been due to a lack of interest in blogging, instead several big things have been going on in my life that have conspired to limit the available time for blogging. One of the "big things" is some new stuff I've been heads-down on doing while I'm at work and which I'll talk about over time as it becomes more solid and public. But work aside, there is also a "big thing" going on in my personal life that's going...
This is, unfortunately, only a test post to ensure that only posts tagged as "Visual Basic" are posted to the MSDN Visual Basic developer center. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.....
My blog is syndicated on the MSDN Visual Basic developer center (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vb), which is great because it drives traffic here but is bad because it means that all my personal posts show up there as well. I don't think everyone who goes to the developer center really cares that much about my personal life... After a little hacking on .Text, I think I've got it set up properly such that only posts tagged as "Visual Basic" will show up in the VB developer center. So, I hope, this post won't show up there. If it doesn't, then I'll test it...
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