Yes that's right, Clearspace. Those familiar with Clearspace might be thinking to themselves ... are you nuts? Clearspace is a -beast- for just a blog! Well, you're probably right. However, I like it, I work with it, and I've been interested in writing some plugins for it for a long time now. The thing is, without actually running it live anywhere for myself, I never give any priority to writing said plugins. Now I have a solid reason to. =)

So what exactly -is- BlatherSource nowadays since I moved all of my projects away from it? Well, for alll practical purposes it's my playground. I continue to use this blog for posts related to my projects, XMPP, that sort of thing. I'll be running a number of services at this site. for example, I'm now offering public XMPP services here. If you are so inclined, feel free to register with blathersource.org. As the author of the IM Gateway plugin, there's a good chance this will be the first place I upload new versions for testing, and if a number of folk start using the service here, it'll help me get a window into what errors might show up. If folk start having problems that I'm having trouble dulicating myself, hopefully I can get said folk to register at blathersource.org and "demo" the misbehaving accounts to me and such. And just in general, if you are looking for a place to house your XMPP account, you are quiet welcome to register it here.

I'll post more details on the XMPP services at a later date, but anyone is welcome to register now if they are so inclined. I'm not sure what else I'm going to run here just yet. I got a general purpose dedicated server from Hosting And Designs. I've been quite pleased with it so far! I hosted my previous web services at Modevia, who were wonderful! However, I decided I wanted to run more services beyond just web services, and also needed to feed my old sysadmin bug since I no longer do that for my job. =)

Anyway, I'm excited for my new site. Who knows, maybe it'll get me posting more. Probably not, but it's wishful thinking.