Suddenly the phrase “XPath Enabled” took on a whole new meaning. This is a very cool – and very infoset centric. I like it. Just as I decided to move to blogX too.

After signing up for the BlogX workspace, I decided to also sign up for Dare’s RSS Bandit and RSS Components Workspaces as well. I’ve been using Syndirella, and that’s been OK, but it appears to have gone dark.

Finally home from being on the road all week. And w/o high speed access for half of it! But I spent much of my time talking about Services Oriented Architecture. I think figured out how I want to talk about it since last Tuesday. So I’m starting work on a new deck which evolves my .NET Vision presentation (that I have been delivering for over 2 years now) into something more related to SOA.

Of course, this whole “day job” thing means I’ll have less time for upgrading my blog infrastructure. So I decided to join Chris Andersons‘ BlogX workspace. Would there be any interest in a Site Skinned web front end? Unfortunately, that means scraping some of my past few days experimentation. I was playing around with Konstantin Knizhnik’s PERST Embedded OODBMS for C#. Sort of cool – but I’d like to see something more XML focused – perhaps a lightweight embedded XML storage engine (that’s XPath enabled of course).

Between work and Patrick, I haven’t had much time to blog. Plus, I’ve been rethinking the backend of this blog. Thus, the more I blog now, the more I’ll have to migrate later. <sigh>

I want to upgrade by backend so I can more easily keep up with Don and Sam and changes in blogspace. Here is the list of blog-related enhancements I want to make:

• <xhtml:body> in my RSS
• Trackback and Pingback
• Comments
• Ping Weblogs.com (plus blo.gs, blogtracker, BlogRolling and BlogShares)

What am I missing? Is there a definitive list of all the blog related specs?

Feedster’s blog indicates they have been “heavily revising the crawler architecture“. I would guess they’ve actually been revising the design (a rant for another time). Either way, it’s nice to see they are indexing me once again. Thanks for getting that fixed, Scott! Also, I slightly updated my blogroll. Mostly adds, one or two subtractions.