back for a while

We're back from Dublin, and the next few weeks are normal again. No trips, no more holidays (though that's definitely not a good thing), no more OOTO mails to write and not very many medical appointments to keep :-)  So, the Algarve was great, and I was seriously chilled out from it when we came back.  I really needed that break from everything.  The last five months have been very hard and stressful, and I needed the rest.  I needed the tan too - I don't think I've actually been this colour in about ten years!
So, there's an interesting decision coming up.  Microsoft are going to release version 3.0 of the .Net framework soon, and my web host will be using it.  There's a fairly significant amount of difference between the two, and I'm going to have to learn it anyway, so I was thinking of a COMPLETE re-write of this blog.  There are now several external tools I use to manage it (case in point; this post is being written in Windows Live Writer), and it is starting to look fairly bolted together now.  I was thinking of releasing the whole thing as an open source blogging package.  There aren't many of them out there, and I have only found two that are in any way decent.  There'd be a lot of work maintaining that though, and I would be limited to the 2.0 version of .Net.  So, I think I'll do that, but with the 3.0 version.  It'll give me a chance to learn it anyway.  I don't know what's new yet (apart from Silverlight), or what has changed, so a quick trip to MSDN is in order I think.  That can wait until tomorrow though.