A jump into the unknown

Dave Winer’s failed experiment has failed. Userland, the company and the support for Frontier and Radio (which I’ve used for blogging since 1991), is dead.

So here we are, about to enter 2010, using WordPress as the content management system. Any posts older than this one have been migrated from the old content, which will remain on-line and available via search engines until all the migration gets done.

It’s an interesting time: our home building is almost finished, the kids are now 8 and 11, the economy is roiling, and – most exciting to the geek in me – technology and infrastructure has evolve so blog posting from portable devices (read: the iPhone) is supported. That will be great on our next trip (not yet even in the planning stages).

I’ll leave this post lying here, mostly as a placeholder, and start the work of adding new content from wherever I happen to be and migrating old content when I have a few moments of free time. And I’ll try to add ways for you to follow along: perhaps via twitter, RSS, or what-not. We’ll see.

Welcome to 2010, and a brave (scary) new world for this blog.

UPDATE: I completely forgot to mention the iPhone-friendly nature of this set-up: whenever the site detects you’re viewing via iPhone any supported smartphone – iPhone, iPod, Android, Storm, and Pre – you’ll be presented with a theme named WPtouch that supplies the look-and-feel to which you’re used, which allows users get to power through sites. (It can be turned off at the bottom of the page.) Just a nice touch for not much work. Actually, there’s nothing on my site that’s smartphone-unfriendly, but this is the icing on the cake.

– Posted from my iPhone via BlogPress