The move back to Australia, organising work, home and everything else associated with relocating 15,000 miles (again) caused more interruption than I originally imagined.

Now that everything is settled, and back to relative normality, you can expect to start seeing more activity from this small niche of the blogsphere.

I still need to revisit the code samples page, but I hope to have that sorted soon.

One new idea, that I’d like to try out is to run a Weekly Poll. I’ll try and run a new poll every Monday, and I’d like the Poll to be driven by you guys. Email me your Poll with Weekly Poll in the subject line by Sunday each week.

For the first Poll, I’ve picked something that will let me shape my content better for you.
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Go here to vote, or see the right sidebar on the website.

I’ve been hearing good things about PowerShell Plus for a while now, most recently from Richard. It’s definitely on my list of things to play with. I just need to find more play time!!

You may recall that I got to see a demo of SpecOps Command, and had access to an early preview. Unfortunately I didn’t get past installing it to really have a play. I believe this application is really going to have a big impact on PowerShell, and it would appear Jeffrey is of the same opinion! Well done to Magnus, Thorbjorn and everyone at SpecOps for going RTM.

When I started this blog, I kept the default theme from WordPress, with the view of worrying about the content rather than the look. Most people seem to read the content via RSS, so that’s been fine. I’m not going to change the focus, but I’m going to revamp the website, update the toolbox and example code and generally give everything an uplift for the New Year.

I’m also aware that posts have lacked the technical content that I want them to have lately. So over the next few weeks I plan on getting a lot more interesting posts up.

Watch this space ;)

It’s been a mixture of having a deliverable due at work, and a whole bunch of family stuff all hit me at the same time. Something had to give, and it appears to have been my posting.

Well, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. You should see a dramatic increase in posts this week :)

I can see a few beers being consumed on Saturday, while watching if Australia can finish the task at the World Cup. It wont be an easy game I think, but I believe the Australian team capable. I guess we’ll see.

Anyway, enough distractions, back to work.

South Africa are playing Australia in the semi-final for the World Cup. I had planned to keep an eye on the score on Cricinfo and write my post.

It would seem that the Australian cricket team however are going to disrupt that. With SA currently 27/4 my attention has now become solely focused on the game.

It might turn out okay though. If SA keep this up, I’ll still have time to finish the post today(it’s now 27/5!).

BBL :)

The title of this blog you of course know. It’s a twist on a saying I believe the UK SAS use: “Lead, Follow or get out of the way”. It’s also kind of my one line manifesto inspired by Hugh’s change the world, 500 words at a time approach.

In relation to this post though, it’s also the approach I take to riding my bike. And herein lies the connection. On my way into work yesterday I had the misfortune to be displaced off said bike after exiting the M4 into Reading. Luckily for me, I have good reflexes and even better safety equipment. Though unlucky for me I put myself in a position where I had reduced visibility and the stereotypical “man-in-a-van” infront of me. The guy didn’t let the stereotype down, and I unsuccessfully tried to David Copperfield my way through his back door.

I haven’t seen the state of the bike yet, but I’m pleased to tell you that I have no broken bones, just some hurt pride, and a sore back. I would like to shout out my thanks to the Berkshire Ambulance crew who scraped me off the floor, and the two really nice cars behind me who pulled up, made sure I was still breathing, and then parked their cars between me and the oncoming traffic so no one else could run me over!

The staff at A&E in Reading we’re really great. You hear lots of dubious reports about UK health services, but from what I saw the A&E department was really well run. Admittedly I was only there for two hours, and they we’re pretty prompt at examining me. No queue there! I guess that’s the advantage of rocking up on board with everything taped down ;) Excellent people, and really nice to go with it :) Thanks!

And no, this hasn’t put me off riding. I will still get back on the road, two wheel style, as soon as I can sort out what’s going on with the bike.

Until I can get a visual on the bike, I thought I’d post up a couple of pictures of my armour for the more curious of you to see how it handled my “sudden stop”.

We’ll hopefully get back to some more interesting posts on Monday.

As I’m new to the blogging conversation, I tend to be a little slow on the uptake for things that might be obvious to everyone else ;) It wasn’t until about a week ago that I realised that the permalinks to this site, are of course using the WordPress default. Yes they are cryptic and ugly, and last night I looked at what could be done.

The permalinks have now been updated to something that makes a little more sense in relation to the post, and I’ve tested that any existing inbound links still work with the old format. Nice one WordPress :)

This blog was never intended to be solely about PowerShell. It was certainly a contributing factor, and I was frustrated by the little “official” documented examples available out there. I’m not as hard core, or developer orientated as a lot of the guys posting on the subject, but I try to keep my posts on this subject simple and relevent. As I have been working with PS a lot recently, that has been the influence of my posts here.

I will say that we’re very lucky in the quality and effort the PowerShell community are putting into getting word out there and trying to spread the wealth of knowledge. The links in the side bar should help you to fill the gaps I may leave here ;)

The point here? Well, over the next few weeks content of a non-PowerShell orientation will start to appear. In recognition that this may not be to everyone’s taste I’ve started to set up feeds through FeedBurner to be a little more specific. So if you’re here for anything PowerShell centric, and don’t much care for anything else, feel free to change your feed over to the PowerShell feed

The other topics likely to emerge over the next few weeks are: Virtualisation, Linux (Debian / Ubuntu), some Application Packaging related stuff in regards to Windows Installer, and potentially some Technology musings on how things are developing.

Like I mentioned before, not necessarily to everyone’s taste’s, but all in all not as diverse as to not be related.

Comments and feedback are always welcome, so please feel free to join in as we go along.

AB