A first post just to kick things off.

I’ve been blogging in one form or another for a decade. It just was not called blogging when I started off with Bigpond’s free webspace (now defunct).

This blog is being written at the Australian TechEd at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on my new HP Mini.

The new thowden.com.au and thowden.com domains are hosted away from my home as my home server (I’ve had one or more servers on my Bigpond cable modem setup since – well, forever – and about a month ago I had two drives collapse rendering the server useless. Time to re-assess and from a green, environmental perspective it seemed high-time to host my various sites on a central server.

So here I am with a new WordPress site and the task of deploying another 3 or 4 sites from my backups out to the big world outside my shed.