New Blog Address

I returned to self-hosting my blog. I love WordPress and the free version here at wordpress.com is truly a superb package. However, I decided to host my own wordpress installation instead of using their free wordpress.com service. This lets me set my own limits upon storage space, install new themes and plugins, and have a bit more freedom with how the blog is configured. It looks the same, feels the same, it just now lives at my url instead of here:

http://blog.stuartthompson.net

All of the posts from my original DasBlog installation have been imported along with about 40% of the SubText posts from before the crash.  I am well underway getting the last 60% moved over.  This blog will not be updated moving forward.  Thank you all for your patience through this transition.  There has been an amount of turmoil since the SubText upgrade failed and this whole mess began.  Hopefully those turbulent times are now over.

Portland Tech Twitter

@janetleejohnson pointed me at the Portland Tech Twitter list on AboutUs this morning.  It’s basically a wiki page listing of tech tweeps in PDX.  Very cool idea and a great index for new people I might be interested in following.  Adding yourself to the list is faily easy too.  There are some great instructions here.  For those wondering how to format the information, here is what I added to include myself in the list:

:[http://www.twitter.com/stuartthompson @stuartthompson] – [[Stuart Thompson]]
::Software architect, consultant for Microsoft-based enterprise solutions.  [http://stuartthompson.wordpress.com Blog] | [http://stuartthompsontech.wordpress.com Tech Blog]

The first part :[http://www.twitter.com/stuartthompson @stuartthompson] – [[Stuart Thompson]] includes a link to my twitter profile but is displayed as my name.

The second part ::Software architect, consultant for Microsoft-based enterprise solutions. includes a brief description of who I am.

The third part [http://stuartthompson.wordpress.com Blog] | [http://stuartthompsontech.wordpress.com Tech Blog] includes links to both this blog and my tech blog.

You can use the template above to include your own information by just tweaking the relevant parts.  Note that the colons are important.  They are part of the formatting syntax for the wiki.