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Wine Review: Inniskillin 2002 Merlot Niagara

Brian — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:05:14 +0000

Inniskillin Wines Okanagan Merlot 2002 (SnoothRank: N/A)
(June 2008)

Had scents of blackberry, licorice, and a hint of cherry on the nose. Full flavor, although a little hot on the finish. Good wine from Niagara, wish I bought a few more.

myRating 4/5

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

Brian — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:50:50 +0000

I just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.5. If you visit the site and have any issues, please let me know.

Thanks!

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Innerdimension.net Now on Wordpress

Brian — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:04:08 +0000

With the blog version of this site quickly approaching the 5 year anniversary mark, I’ve been trying to update / fix issues with moving to Movable Type 4 and it’s new theme structure. You had to use the new structure to use the new features included, and the lack of published themes in conjunction with issues when adding features I had on the MT 3.3 version of the site not properly working forced me to rethink the delivery of this site.

So off I went, looking at everything from full-blown CMS to various blog platforms to SharePoint, since it pays my bills ; ). I’m currently on a Unix hosting provider, so SharePoint is out. CMS would be overkill for my needs, so those were soon eliminated as well. Wordpress seemed to fit all of my needs and more with extensible plugins, thousands of already free themes, and a simple interactive interface with spam filtering. Maybe the MT side of the fence will improve, and this site spent a good 5 years on it, but for now Wordpress fits the bill a bit better.

I hope you enjoy the new layout, and enjoy!

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Social Networking: Back to the Blog?

Brian — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:28:21 +0000

Over on GigaOM, Anne Zeleka talks about the next social network being Wordpress, or blogs in general, and talks about the current DiSo project which is utilizing OpenID as a centralized identity, but allows any user to host his “home” anywhere. Anne talks up Wordpress as that is the first plugin architecture the DiSo project is working with, but with MovableType going Open Source, I’m sure Wordpress is only the starting point. It’s a solid idea, and brings back to the debate about all of these Social Networks, are they a good thing or due to the variety out there actually hinder both the social aspects with contacts you already have and the networking concepts that these sites are trying to provide?

Copyblogger argues on the side of blogs as a better venue / value proposition versus Social Networks, since you can ultimately control your content versus providing your content to grow the value of the network, which you have no monetary interest in. The site obviously is looking at it from the profiteering perspective, which is valid, but everyone isn’t trying to live (or make money) on their blog.

They both have their place, but the groundswell is getting bigger that it’s too difficult / time consuming to update each social networking site / blog and social networking sites need to be open to help cross-pollenate updates to all of the networks / blogs you so choose.

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Charlie Oscar Delta Call of Duty 4 Coverage

Brian — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:25:56 +0000

With the release of Call of Duty 4 just hours away, check out the Charlie Oscar Delta site for more info!

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SharePoint 2007 Backup and Recovery WhitePaper Available Now

Brian — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:22:44 +0000

Microsoft just released a whitepaper documenting backup and recovery options for those that implement small to medium SharePoint 2007 farms. The document covers everything from the file to the farm level, as well as mentions some additional tools available on CodePlex to autoarchive on site delete, and some guidance on customizations via Solutions. Check it out.

Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in Small to Medium-Sized Deployments

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SharePoint High Availability Resources

Brian — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:18:47 +0000

I’m currently in the middle of my employer’s SharePoint migration from 2003 to 2007, and in the process we’re moving to new hardware, new farm structure, and new availability requirements. Something that I’m trying to get a handle on is that Database Mirroring only supports up to 10 databases at a time, and this would be a bare MOSS implementation if you would mirror all databases and keep the out of the box SQL 2005 databases (3 SSP, 1 MySite ContentDB, 1 MOSS Content DB, 2 Central Admin DBs, 1 Index DB, 2 ReportServer DBs). For those implementations that split out their content databases, this would be a significant problem. Here are some links that help to address the debate on what scenarios you should use for your High Availability application.

Joel Olson has two posts on Replication and High Availability, and where any SharePoint admin / architect should start: Replication and High Availability, Mirroring, Log Shipping, and High Availability Resources
On Technet, there is an article to plan for your availability requirements: Plan for Availability (Office SharePoint Server)
Mauro Cardarelli has a brief article on MOSS 2007 and High Availability, mentioning the modes of database mirroring implementation, as well as a link to a Microsoft Article outlining Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services: MOSS 2007 and High Availability
The last one is a sample high-level solution utilizing database mirroring provided by Scot Hiller: Database Mirroring in SharePoint 2007 for Disaster Recovery

As for our implementation, we’re currently proceeding with the Database Mirroring approach, since our hardware is already purchased, but there are some other compelling ways to provide seamless high availability posted above.

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Now on MT 4.0 Final

Brian — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:36:35 +0000

Well the site is now on the production MT 4.0 codebase, which was released today. I haven’t had the time to dig into why the sidebar templates get all clobbered when I try to strip out the junk and add in a widget set, but hopefully I’ll get to it soon.

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Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach

Brian — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:57:25 +0000

Jesse Gardner recently posted a great article on his Movable Tweak site documenting the fundamental design changes between MT3 Templates and MT4 Teamplates. If you haven’t looked at the templates, basically all of the current templates have been modularized so common components are read from the same file, where previously you had to go to every template you wanted to change by hand. You can read the article here.

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MT4 RC1 and Default Styles - What a Mess

Brian — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:27:06 +0000

So I just upgraded from MT4 Beta 6 to RC1 today, and also went through every template to update it to the new MT4 code (something I didn’t do during Beta 6). Everything works as intended. I then try one of the new standard styles available through the UI. It loads okay, but it removes the widget list I created. The problem is, the styles should enumerate / create a widget set to use for the style, and instead it seems to be hard-coded to the style itself. Nice, now I have to scrape through module code to take their stuff out and put back the widget selection code that should have been there in the first place. Ugh.

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