I ultimately got fed up with the old blog. It had cruft contained within as well as having successfully confused SimpleScripts, the shoddily made but useful installation manager I use for WordPress. SimpleScripts had somehow managed to come under the impression that there were in fact two identical WordPress installations in the same location on my server. How this happened, I have no idea, however with much zest-filled clicking and some muttering of profanities that are not polite in company I convinced it to remove the notion of any such installations and started afresh. Let us be honest, my last setup was shite with very little to offer so I am making a concerted effort to write about once a week on this blog.
I have worked long enough now as a professional developer to have developed some insight into the Wild West of an industry I work in. In short that means I have seen a few battles and have some war stories and insight to share now that I did not when I started the old blog. I have also learnt a great deal more about what software development is all about (hint: It has very little to do with technical skill after a certain point). Expect to see some writings on C++, Erlang and perhaps a bit of Ruby as well as general musings regarding my efforts to become a senior software engineer at Microsoft.
In addition to the programming related writings, I will also be renewing my attempts at recording my cooking experiments. I think the first of these will be a short post on the Green Curry with Fish and Sunflower Seed Butter that I made last week. Sounds strange, turned out quite fantastic.
Perhaps after some time I will start sharing the posts with regularity on those absurd “aggregator” sites like Reddit and Hacker News. I think I will first stretch out what rusty skills I have as a writer and only spam my Twitter audience.