_Farewell to First Social Media Site

I have been meaning to blog out about this for a while now, but quietly one of the first true Social Media platforms was killed off this week.  To quote DownloadSquad who quoted Obi-Wan “we felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced”.

GeoCities was known for it terrible home pages.  When I say terrible, I mean really bad.  But, before blogging and Flickr and Facebook this was the way you shared your information, your stories, your photos.  It took off for a bit but was pounced upon by other communities that did a better job.

Goodbye web 1.0 you will be missed but not forgotten.

_Finally Got My Blog Going and Twitter Hooked Up

My blog has been down for some time now.  I was hosted with 1and1.com on a .NET platform using BlogEngine.NET.  It was pretty cool.  No real complaints but I work in .NET all day so I am pretty fluent with it.  There has been more buzz re: PHP and WordPress so for about a year now I have been playing with both.  What better way to gain skills in something then to try to use it almost every day.  So I moved from 1and1.com over to GoDaddy.com to save a little money and work in PHP more.

So far so good.  At some point I will load my old posts but no rush.  Now just integrating my Twitter with my blog.

_Drew5.NET Is Back

After a long time away, Drew5.net is back in action with a new look, new host and new code.  I abandoned 1AND1.com for GoDaddy.com and migrated from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress.  I enjoy the flexibility of PHP a bit more than .NET.  Plus I code in .NET all day.

Look out for new posts coming soon.