james kahn's scratchpad
a blog on technology – cloud computing, software and strategy

After mucking around with my webserver and switching from Apache to nginx, it appears as though my blog was offline for a month or so. I’m sure the world didn’t miss it with my amazing post frequency.

If you read a few blogs, you would have noticed that over the past 12 months there has been an increased tendency to include video blog posts rather then text.

Video makes sense in certain situations – like demonstrating something, or watching hilarious motorcycle crashes.  In other situations, text is significantly better.  Why?

• I ran read over 2x faster than you can talk.
• I can skim many times faster than I can read.
• I can cut and paste useful bits from your post.

After spending too long away from making a post here, I’ve decided that trying to target my blogging just to Infrastructure Management is far too restrictive for me.  I’m not a professional blogger, and have no desire to be.  I’ll just blog about whatever I like.

I’ve been very busy both at work and outside of it recently and haven’t had much a chance to do any blog writing.  I’m still here, and have some articles in the works.

All things must come to an end, and in my case, the scattershot nature of my blog is changing to one of focus – IT Infrastructure Management. What do I mean by that?

In general, I’ll deal with the tools, concepts and techniques of implementing and managing a business IT Infrastructure. Expect a fair amount of:

• General conceptual articles, such as my previous posts Strategy vs Tactics and Infrastructure Planning: The Road to Success;
• Commentary on IT Infrastructure trends;
• Information on the Microsoft System Center range of infrastructure management products; and,
• I might throw in a couple of best practise guides along the way.

Don’t expect a lot of knowledge base article style technical detail – that’s what vendor’s knowledge bases are for. And of course, I’ll still pepper in the occasional personal post – I’m far too vain to avoid it!