I fully belong in the Eloi category these days, having not only failed miserably to upgrade my wordpress installation, but completely breaking my website in the process.
Luckily, friendly morlocks were on hand. Many thanks to Boris for the assist. Beers will be forthcoming.
My domain was trapped in The Phantom Zone for a few days.
Apologies for magical bouncing email and the like.
I appear to have broken things.
Look! Over there! The Goodyear Blimp!
Fixed. I think.
“Next on Discovery Channel: ‘When designers try to use .htaccess’“
I’ve just managed to fairly painlessly import five years of writing into wordpress. Lots of pictures are missing though, and I’m not sure I have copies of them. Also, the effortless import process brought in all my typepad categories – which has created a librarian’s nightmare in the sidebar.
I realised this month that I will have been working on the web for 10 years, and speaking my brains at /work for 5 of those. No wonder I’m knackered.
I finally got the guts to delve into the depths of my webserver and set up WordPress.
It was surprisingly painless even for an Eloi like myself, once the heavy-lifting of setting up the database had been done for me (thanks James and Stef)
Managed to import the entries from my (non)secret blogger blog I’d been running as a scratchpad during my downtime, and now to try shoehorning in 5 years of Typepad-formatted nonsense.
I’ll stick with the default theme for now, as it’s going to take a while for me to get my head around the thing, but happy to be back!
I’m still trying to rehouse my blog, blackbeltjones.com/work; but the fact remains that ditching five years of writing felt good. The digital baggage gone, I found I really still needed to write my thoughts down. Here is where they will be. Moved!
Petafloptimism 