Hey all, sorry for my extended silence. Those familiar with my old personal blog would know I sometimes take a small break now and then, but this time it was entirely different.

Since mid-March, I've been working like crazy at the new job to get our latest software out the door (it was very successful, thank you very much!), move to a new apartment, get the old apartment cleaned up (and still owed almost $200 on top of our initial deposit), get into a new routine at the new place, and getting out of my old day-to-day "I'm a freelancer" routine.

I added a new page to the Blackjack 2 Tips series last night which lists just the registry hacks I recommend most. I'll be splitting up some of the other information there too as well as writing new articles on applications that readers have written me about in the past two weeks.

Sorry for my silence lately, work has been very busy, plus we're moving, and we've got taxes etc. to take care of too, gah!

I decided to sell my Neo1973. Commuting to the new job makes it tough to do any more development now that I'm giving up 3-4 hours a day sitting in a car.

The eBay listing is at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120232014254 and more photos can be seen at http://iandouglas.com/neo1973/index.php

Auction closes March 20 at 9:50am PST.

Digg just ran an article about a trojan targeting Windows Mobile devices:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=904

Article at ZDNet contains URLs for McAfee and CERT.

A user named Klint contacted me through my site to ask if I had looked at PhotoAce for the BlackJack 2, and I admitted to him that I'd never heard of the app. He pointed me at a YouTube video of a demo of the application which had a link in the video description pointing to an online survey and offering a free copy of the application for a few minutes of your time to fill out their survey.

Until the guys working on the search404 module for Drupal update their code for Drupal v6, my old URLs are all broken, and it seems that writing a long series of mod_rewrite rules spins the CMS into never-never-land.

So if you're trying to get to a blog article, you can try changing the url from:

iandouglas.com/my-url-title

to

iandouglas.com/news/my-url-title

So Drupal 6 is live on iandouglas.com ... few minor issues to work out, but all content is migrated except comments on the static pages (BJ2, SpamAssassin, etc). I'll get those moved soon.

My SilverStripe2Drupal migration script is almost complete. I moved the static content manually, but since I have over 300 blog posts, I obviously want to automate that as much as possible.

I'm almost there -- I just need to figure out a few final things about injecting data into drupal's database, and we'll be all set. Plus I need to undo BBcode formatting from SilverStripe (changing [b] to real bold tags, etc).