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Hello again!

Jim Shank — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:28:12 +0000

I took down my old server a while ago and it took bblog with it. I archived my blog entries and will get them copied over here soon. I also have a few entries to write and will get the categories more organized as I go.

For new comers who haven’t read my stuff before, welcome. I am a technology and gadget addict with a 20+ year background in computers and networking. I have been developing in VB.NET officially for about 5 years and dabbled in automation languages (Perl, PHP, vbscript, etc.) previous to that. I have served several tours of duty on various help desks and even a telephone support role for a PC Manufacturer. I am now the network manager for a local school district and enjoying the change of pace from technical to managerial. I have several articles published with Novel Cool Solutions and love to write technical reviews and walkthroughs. I am an avid Linux user for solutions like MythTV, Asterisk and other appliance type solutions. I am also experienced in Windows since 3.11 and have 3 Windows 2003 Servers as well. I run hosted Exchange 2003 for a few clients as well as web sites. For the last several years I have been the director of product development for an unstructured text analytics start-up. After losing funding in that venture I was filling the days doing private consulting on a variety of support and implementation roles as well as some custom data portal development in the telecom damage recovery area for data collection. I also did several SharePoint implementations and continue to support the efforts of the start-up.

Happy New Year!

Jim Shank — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:13:45 +0000

Happy New Year! Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days but the end of the year has been busy. I spent a lot of good time with family and friends and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at The Broker last night as well as enjoying the fireworks over downtown Denver to welcome in the New Year. Here are the pictures I took with my phone.

Images gone after blog move.

The pictures are definitely dark but the lighting was almost nonexistent in all of the pictures. It’s fun to capture the memories though

Ping to Blo.gs working!

Jim Shank — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:50 +0000

Thanks to Jeff, I am finally able to automatically ping blo.gs when submitting blogs through the w.bloggar xmlrpc interface. Hooray! The code was ugly but after only 2 hours, we were able to isolate the problem and resolve it. The next step will be to correctly call the code that pings multiple blogroll services as is done in the native post interface.

Cleaned up the RSS Feed

Jim Shank — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:42:46 +0000

Due to reports of issues with RSS I have edited the RSS code with a fix. The fix was in the bblog forums

BBlog Ping Problem

Jim Shank — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:59:02 +0000

I think I might have found a bug with bblog. It doesn’t seem to ping the other blog services like blo.gs. I have set the correct URL’s in Options but alas, the update date at blo.gs doesn’t show it’s getting my blog updates. Here we go again.