I guess I should start with an apology.  Faithful readers have probably left my blog in their droves because it’s been so long since I posted anything.

Here’s the thing.

When I worked at Microsoft, my job required that I was always looking at new technology.  It seemed reasonable to me that I should write about it, because other people picking up that technology might gain something from my writing.

These days, I don’t do much with new technology from Microsoft.  My clients tend to be fairly conservative in their technology choices.  While I continue to learn a lot about Microsoft’s platform, I just don’t feel inclined to write about my findings, because Google tells me that a lot of people have been there before me.

Now, I’m the sort of person that always wants to be learning about new stuff.  When I left Microsoft I suddenly felt that I wanted to learn about the wide world of software outside of their platform.  I’ve been learning to develop apps for the Mac, for example.  I’ve been learning to build web apps using PHP, and to run them on Apache on Linux.  I’ve been using MySQL, and I’ve even written a little Java.

I haven’t turned my back on the Microsoft platform.  I can’t see that happening any time soon.  I spend most of my working life using their platform and tools, and I’m quite happy doing so.

Soon I’ll be starting a new blog.  On it, my future posts are just as likely to be about those non-Microsoft technologies as they are to be about Microsoft ones.  In fact, maybe more so.  Because I’m such a novice in those other fields, I find something interesting at every turn.

When my new blog is up-and-running, I will of course post a link here.