{"id":2290,"date":"2010-05-31T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2010-05-31T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:26:14","slug":"site-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/05\/31\/site-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Site update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago now I decided to take a break from writing on the blog due to personal reasons. Being a bit of a geek, it&#8217;s fair to say that I have a lot of IT-related personal projects on the boil at any given time. Or rather, I used to.<\/p>\n<p>However, I found that it had reached the point where I was focusing so much on the blog that I wasn&#8217;t giving myself any time to work on other projects that also happen to give me a great deal of personal satisfaction. So I wanted to pull back from the blog for a little while to evaluate where I was going, and what I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>In its own way, this has been both a challenge and also very rewarding. Rewarding because I actually managed to achieve several things that I&#8217;d been putting off for ages, and challenging because it made me realise how much I&#8217;ve been using this blog as a measure of personal satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>On top of all that, last Friday marked my partner&#8217;s 40th birthday, and I would have been remiss if I&#8217;d not spent serious time on preparations for that*.<\/p>\n<p>So, where does this leave <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\">nsrd.info<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back, the hiatus is over, but having had some time for reflection, there&#8217;ll be a few changes so that I can ensure I don&#8217;t let the blog take over my personal life again. Here&#8217;s what those changes are going to be:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI> I&#8217;m going to wherever possible limit myself to two articles a week. Some weeks there may only be one.<br \/>\n\t<LI> I&#8217;d be very pleased to have additional contributors. A while ago Ronny Egner contributed a great article about installing the NetWorker client on OpenSolaris, and I&#8217;d be pleased to hear from others who have information they&#8217;d like to contribute.<br \/>\n\t<LI> Before the hiatus, I cutover to using Mail Chimp for notices about new articles. I&#8217;m going to continue to use Mail Chimp, <B>but<\/B>, I&#8217;ll be only using Mail Chimp for those one or two articles a week. What does that mean? See the next point&#8230;<br \/>\n\t<LI> While I&#8217;ll only be aiming to publish one or two articles a week, I&#8217;ll be starting a new &#8220;Tidbit&#8221; category and if minor items come to mind during the week (e.g., I spot an article I&#8217;d recommend you read), I&#8217;ll post it under the Tidbit category. With that in mind, you may very well wish to subscribe to the site&#8217;s RSS feed. These won&#8217;t be long articles, more like extended tweets.<br \/>\n\t<LI> My previous plan for micromanuals will probably slow down quite a bit. At this point I&#8217;ll be aiming to provide a micromanual for configuring LinuxVTL with NetWorker by the end of June, and after that I&#8217;ll evaluate when the next one will come out, and what it will be about.<br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nIn short, I&#8217;m hoping that by taking a more structured approach to the blog I&#8217;ll get a more balanced personal life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the strategy of actually finishing some personal projects, this week I&#8217;m going to be focusing on completing the Nomenclature page rather than completing new articles.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your patience!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n* On that front, here&#8217;s a tip for a 40th birthday present: an iPad. Well, that was part of it. The other tip is &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to have a party &#8211; organise in advance a photo book of everyone attending, and get them to sign and leave a message in the book on the night. 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