Happy to say I managed to back up the data, test drive 2.1 locally, and push it up to the site here to finally run on Subtext 2.1.
True credit goes to Phil Haack and the guys on the SubText team for making an OS blog engine that "just works".
2008 was a pretty good year: I left a job where the path forward was to abandon my .Net skills in favor of learning Java, and returned to Progress Energy to develop and support .Net applications. I was elected President of TriNUG, and given the opportunity to stop whining and start making TriNUG better. I started using Twitter, and really grew my community of peers by dozens. I feel like if I don't put something down for where I want to be at the end of 2009, I will spend much of the year drifting about. So here...