Update: James-Batchelor.com

This website has received yet another update, and now I am happy with it.

The biggest change was to change the blogging software to WordPress. Although my previous software (BlogEngine.net) was built on ASP.Net and SQL Server, my current choice of language and database that I am most familiar with, I felt that BE was way to bloated and it felt unrefined for my needs.

So I went with WordPress, it seems most blogs I read use this and they look slick, to I wanted a piece of the action. This meant installing PHP and MySQL on IIS, something I really did not want to do due to the resource hog on my server, but I bit the bullet and ordered more RAM for the server.

So far, so good!

Welcome

Welcome to the blog of James Batchelor!

This blog is here mainly to accompany my other website over at diyhomeserver.co.uk. There you have a guide to building, setting up and enjoying your own personal home server, while any updates and new tricks I learn from the net will appear here.

Apart from that, this blog will also house my usual ramblings about the world and just what I find absolutely absurd about it.

Feel free to check in, maybe you will find something interesting and new, but probably, you will work out how different we really are.