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I've been struggling over the past couple of years to find a new purpose in keeping this site up and running. Over the past 2-3 years, most of my posts have been random in nature, and few and far between. I started this site back in 2003, so it's been almost 10 years since my first post. Back then I was just getting into the realm of professional IT (my first "real" IT job was in 2002), so naturally I started this off as a software development platform. .Net was brand spanking new...

Seven years ago, I started this blog as an experiment; little did I know that after all this time I’d still be doing this. I haven’t posted nearly as much as I’d like since I got out of the IT industry, but it’s amazing how much has changed both in my life and the internet in general after all these years. I wouldn’t have it any other way to be honest. Who knows what the next few years hold in store for me…I’m looking forward to the journey though.

I posted a while back about the Feedburner MyBrand service ...I've been taking it for a spin on some other low traffic feeds and am nothing less than blown away, so JK.com is now Feedburner enabled and ready to rock. Community Server 2007 has built in support for Feedburner out of the box; it's as simple as plugging values into a couple of textboxes, flipping a switch or two, and blammo...syndication feeds are burnerized. What that all means is that the transition should be seamless for existing...

I've had a Feedburner account for a while now, but have been reluctant to throw the switch on my site's feeds over to it...while I may not have a huge circulation (and therefore no "brand" to adhere to), I'd like to keep what little recognition I do have in my feed address instead of the generic feedburner.com/whatever, i.e. my name (or in the case of clients, their company name, etc). Feedburner now offers a pretty impressive array of services, so I was in the process of giving in and started to...

Via Ken Robertson (aka the man behind BlogMailr): Yes, BlogMailr is now live! Check it out for yourself at blogmailr.com . So what is BlogMailr? It is an email-to-blog service for everybody. No matter what your software is, where it is hosted, or if your software supports it out of the box. If your blog supports posting tools like Windows Live Writer or BlogJet, BlogMailr will work for you. Enter in a little bit of information, such as where your site is, and the username/password, and it will automatically...