Hello, everyone! Those of you who have been to this site before are probably wondering what's going on. "What gives," you ask. "Where's all that compelling content that used to be here? And that oh-so-schmoove design that used to grace the internet. Is it gone forever?"

Well, here's the deal: I've finally abandoned CityDesk and jumped into Community Server. It's been a long time coming, but I've finally taken the plunge and have gone to a real blogging platform. There are lots of reasons that I decided to do this, not the least of which is being able to use Windows Live Writer to edit blog posts. Creating a blog post with CityDesk was at least a 4 step process. Not so with Live Writer. Just fire it up, write, and publish! hopefully Bec will be able to post more easily this way.

Geek Note: To get our blog to show up automatically when you enter www.dougandbec.net in your browser, I'm using Timothy Humphrey's subdomain module for Community Server. It's pretty handy, but requests for just dougandbec.net are still going directly to the community server homepage rather than the blog homepage. Oh well. Maybe I'll figure that out soon.

Anyway, in the next couple of weeks, I'll try to get all the old content ported over to the new Community Server blog. Here's to hoping that it doesn't take another year to get to it!