I highly doubt that anyone out there has noticed that I have an issue with keeping on top of my blogs. That is about to change.

I traced my lack of posts back to a lack of focus. My job consumes my day and my family consumes my nights and weekends. While this is the way it should be, it doesn’t leave me much time for hobby blogging. While I strive to make time for that type of post, it just doesn’t make sense for where I am in life. On top of that, I am starting my own business. That’s right. The guy with no free time is taking on a ton of work by putting himself out there independently.

The beauty of the project is that it revolves around my current role at the office. This will allow me to essentially get better at my job while putting together a strong base for my business.

Back to the point…. Watch this space get more professional. I am going to use this to voice my personal views on the professional subjects that I tackle in my job(s).

More on the details of the side business later.

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I hopped on the Twitter bandwagon a while ago and have completely adopted the life of a regular tweeter. I ultimately found that it suits my style better than blogging. While I have tried (and tried and tried) to get a blog off the ground and make it something that I regularly update, it just doesn’t happen. It’s not that I don’t have topics, there are actually a ton of things that I think to put out there. It’s that I don’t have that much content. I have small blurbs, sometimes only one sentence. I am not pushing any breaking news to the web, so it’s not often that would even need to do any research.

Enter Twitter. With a tweet I can push my thoughts out there to the world in a quick, concise way.  I don’t need to make sure that I have more than one paragraph, in fact, no more than 140 characters. For almost everything, this suits my needs.

I was going to tweet about this when I realized that I ran out of character space. This reminded me of the stand up meeting method in agile development. Stand ups are supposed to be no longer than 15 minutes. If they need more time, then you realize that you need to schedule a different meeting to cover that topic. Same goes for tweets, there’s just a point when you realize it’s a blog post.

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We successfully migrated our office email to Zimbra last night and got all our users going this morning. So far, things have been working great. There are few snags, but they were expected.

Ironically, this morning there were a couple of articles about Zimbra that popped up in my Reader

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/07/yahoos_zimbra_g.html

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_imap_zimbra_desktop.php

I haven’t tried the Zimbra desktop yet, but it does look promising. Moving from an outdated SquirrelMail system, this new platform is amazing.

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I jumped all over the new Wordpress
app available in the iTunes App Store and have been pleased with the results so far. In fact, both if today’s (albeit simple) posts have been authored on the phone.

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Just as I started actually blogging semi-regularly I cancelled my old hosting plan. So here I am again, hoping to make a go of it. Wish me luck

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