I finally decided to do some housecleaning on the website. I noticed that the old theme didn’t seem to fully work with the latest version of WordPress so I’ve changed it to something that may or may not be temporary. I also noticed that apparently someone had gained access to the webserver and there was porn stashed into some other /blogs directory — so some much needed housecleaning was necessary. I had some stale wikis, forums, etc. that may have allowed elevated privileges, so those have also been removed.

I find myself not really having a ton of time to blog, but this was a good reminder that I need to keep things tidy and up-to-date at the least.

So, I finally decided to remove the weekly twitter blog posts. It was completely redundant — if you wanted to see what I post on twitter, you would’ve followed me @jbctech. It made the blog look terrible (even though I never update it). I hope to try to get back into this in the near future. For those who are still following, don’t give up.

Well, I apparently completely suck at this internet blog thing.  Shortly after working with the PR people at NetApp to get my own blog, I wrote a few short articles on installation of some of the products I work on and then…quit updating.  I tell myself I have excuses — a lot has happened in the last year.   I always have a hard time prioritizing updating the blog, whether it be my professional one or this one.  Looking at the last post, it’s now been over a year since my last update.  So, I guess I should go ahead and say “Happy New Year!” even though that was weeks ago!

I doubt anyone reads this personal blog or even looks anymore, since well — I haven’t been updating.  But, as I said, a lot has happened in the last year.  Last year around this time, we found out that my wife, Rebecca was pregnant.  Then, in October, our baby girl Kaitlyn was born.  It’s been an incredibly exciting time – I can’t believe she’s almost four months old now.  So, in between staying incredibly busy at work, spending time with my family and playing Warcraft I haven’t had any time to blog.

So, with the blog – a few months ago, I logged in (probably because I had around 300-400 spam messages that weren’t caught by Akismet) and realized that my WordPress was incredibly out of date.  So, I updated to the latest released version and that broke my theme.  I decided to stick with the default theme until I found time to update the site again.  Well, as you can see – I chose this new theme, which looks decent and is much easier to update than the previous one.

This domain name has been my home on the internet for over 11 years now.  So, I’m going to wrap this post up by saying – I can’t guarantee that I’ll keep this updated regularly, but I’m going to try.

I now have a second blog going on blogs.netapp.com.  It will be where all work-related postings go.  So, if you’re here looking for my random work related thoughts, please check out my new blog:

 WHU Who!?

If you usually visit jbctech.com, you may have noticed that the site was redirected to an advertisement page for the last two days.  That’s because I forgot to renew my domain name.  I’ve owned jbctech.com for the last 11-12 years and have never let it expire like that.  I believe the registrar only has me as the owner for the last 8 but I’ve changed domain registrars a number of times.  At any rate, jbctech.com is back online….I can once again receive email.  Still no new content here other than this post…been super busy at work lately.