The site migration is now complete - 2800+ posts brought over, set for security and tagged. I'm sure I'll find some little things to fix in the near future, but I am quite pleased with the way things are at the moment. I know there's a plugin that I can use to bring comments over, but ( Read more... )

Got all the posts ported over through April of 2005. Damn, I've written a lot the past 5 years ( Read more... )

Watching the President totally hose floor trading at the NYSE at the moment. The White House had repeatedly denied that he would be visiting the NYSE after his speech across the street at Federal Hall, but there you go. The Secret Service folks do not seem pleased with this turn of events. (I hope they are at least grateful that the NYSE floor ( Read more... )

The LJ crossposting seems to be working quite acceptably so far. The import function is a little squirrley at the moment, and I'm not sure if it's just domain lag or something is actually wrong, as categories are updating instantly, but the posts on the backside are not - so I think it would be best if I stop attempting to import and tag things ( Read more... )

Well, the site migration is finished, with only a very few minor glitches, for which I am quite grateful. I'm already very impressed with my new host, Laughing Squid - apparently this is how a real domain host is supposed to work - they actually have a decent control panel interface, actual tools that I can use to administer the database, real ( Read more... )

have been updated - just a waiting game now to see how long it takes to kick over.

OK, got the go ahead from the new host to start mirroring - downloading everything from the old host at the moment and then get to turn around and upload it to the new side. If I can get it all done tonight, the domain pointers will be changed tonight. Only other maintenance will be to create the new db on the new side, run the install and then ( Read more... )

Many thanks to Capital Computer Rentals for getting me hooked up with a laptop on very short notice. As it turns out, got an email from the new domain host just before I left the house and the account is already up and ready for mirroring, so that lag time I was counting on while the other laptop is in the shop on doesn't exactly exist - so, at ( Read more... )

Well, the decision has been made. After spending a long night happily geeking out with a test instance of WordPress, I've decided I'm going to migrate to it for the site. I'll still be crossposting over to LiveJournal, but I really like the idea of having the blog actually part of the site rather than being imported from elsewhere. Many thanks ( Read more... )