i just completed making a couple finishing touches to the blog. successfully moved over from graffiti to wordpress (although without a few minor hiccups). i spent some time fixing some character issues in the resulting blogml xml file export (thanks curt) and wordpress finally took it. yes! i then chose a suitably decorative theme, modified

this weekend briangorbett.com may or nay not be available. i am preparing to move my blog engine over to wordpress from graffiti. since i have had a few questions on why i would be doing this, i figured i would give you my top 3 here (before my blog possibly gets smoked from the move).

it has been a little while since i posted to this bloody blog, but it has been running on graffiti since the move a few weeks ago and running great. i have to give it to telligent for really thinking through installing graffiti and, most importantly, migrating from another blog engine. right now i am

well, i think i finally have enough info to migrate my blog to graffiti. i found out that both blogengine.net (my current blog engine) and graffiti both support blogml. this is a good thing and i have been wondering how i am going to accomplish the move without busting my posts. so today i am

i know this is not the best title to start a blog post, but i just finished up a great brainstorming session for our team’s fy09 strategy (msft’s fiscal year ends at the end of june) and we discussed how important it is to have an online connection with the community. I agree whole heartedly,

as promised, i wanted to follow-up on my post on developing the new briangorbett.com site with what was even more challenging… the design. first, i believe in simplistic, clean designs and i wanted to echo this with the site launch. once i had my paper-prototype done, i figured it would be a fairly straight forward

i am pretty anal when it comes to details with my web properties and my blog is no different. i love the blogengine.net engine because of the ease of customizing some really great templates already available. but one thing has been irking me about my rss feed. i have added a really cool extension called

i have made a resolution to stop twittering this year and focus on more non-self promoting activities. i also noticed that a facebook friend of mine, molly, also made this resolution since she realized that it was taking away from her always interesting blog posts. so i am committed to facebook now and trying to