Back to blogging
OK, so one of my new year's resolutions has been to finally keep this blog going. I thought I would start with a quick status blog and explain what I have in store for the near future.
As much as I would love to blog about the cool new feature I am working on, I am unable to give much light on this at the moment. I can say that this will be a very important component of Office Communications Server and, once it is public, I will have a series of blogs detailing it. In the meantime, we are working very hard to finish it and get it to a highly stable and robust component.
On the photography end, I was lucky enough to get a few toys in December and bought the Canon 70-200 4.0L IS. I really love this lens - particularly the IS. I thought long and hard about what lens to get but ultimately I needed a primary lens for my camera (I had sold my Tamron 24-135) and the 70-200 2.8 IS was simply too heavy. Also reports that the 4.0 lens is sharper and has better IS pushed it over the edge. In other toys I received the CP-E4 flash battery pack which I now use constantly with my 580EX and MT-24EX flashes and I received the angle viewfinder C which I am still learning how to use.
Blog-wise, the big news is that I will be splitting up my blogs in the very near future. The blog that you are currently reading will stay focused on Office Communications Server and microsoft related topics. I may occasionally go off topic with thoughts about travelling, but for the most part I want this blog to be a source of information for OCS.
The second blog, which will be on a new site, will cover my passion for photography. I have always felt guilty about discussing photography here and this blogging software is not very well geared for photography anyways. I will of course announce the site here when it is ready and I will keep permanent links between the different blog sites for those who care.
The final blog will be a joint project between my wife and I and will cover real estate. This will primarily be my wife's blog (she is a real estate agent), but at times I will add my own views. I have avoided discussing my opinions on real estate and the real estate market here because I felt that they were a conflict of interest, given that I obviously will promote my wife. I will likely announce this blog here when it is ready, but I will not provided a permanent link between the sites as I suspect they will have few readers in common and also due to conflict of interest.
I hope everyone had a great New Years and I promise that you will soon have some useful new blogs to read!