If you look at the very bottom of this page, you will see that this site is powered by BlogEngine.net. I have to admit that this is a really solid and very lightweight blogging engine (built on ASP.NET 2.0). Of course, when you control your own web site and choose your own technologies, you often face the potential trauma that is the software upgrade.

I finally got around today to upgrading to the latest version of BlogEngine.net. I took the amazing step of reading the Upgrade Guide twice for fear of making a foolish mistake. Now, even though this is just my little personal blog, my years in building and managing web sites still forces me to treat unnecessary downtime as evil. That being said, I began the FTP push of t he upgrade to the web site when... my network connection suddenly chose to take a coffee break. I never realized the Internet was a "union shop" until then ;-) Fortunately, the connection drop was brief, but it forced me to start the upload all over again and swear out loud (the wife and kids aren't around, so I can get away with it).

As you can see, all is well now. I've got and upgraded web site and am none the worse for it. I am, however, dreading the looming monster upgrade I will be making soon for my son's school PTA web site in the next few weeks. It's a cool project, but I guarantee I'll be treating it as if I was upgrading Google if anything goes wrong :-)