The New Blog Arrives

There will probably be things wrong with this site. I moved six years of stuff from one platform to another. It was tough and I was diligent but I’m no miracle worker!

It’s just about 4:00 AM. Things are quiet. I picked this as the right time to move my website. At least here in Hamden the move is a success.

There is no computer named geofffox.com or yahoo.com or any other URL. The Internet is really all about numbers and not even easily understood numbers! Each website is identified by four digits between 0 and 255. That’s too tough so a system was set up to translate more memorable words into the numbers. My wait over the past few hours was for my name to be associated with a new set of numbers.

There will probably be things wrong with this site. I moved six years of stuff from one platform to another. It was tough and I was diligent but I’m no miracle worker!

Switching from MoveableType to WordPress should make my life easier. I now have an app built into my iPhone which natively talks with the website’s ‘back end.’ The photo attached to this entry was directly placed by the phone. WP will also work better with video.

If you see stuff that’s not working, leave a comment or drop me an email.  I’m the web wrangler here.  I want to know.

12 thoughts on “The New Blog Arrives”

  1. Minor thing, but seeing as how you asked, the email link in this post shows up as a light gray until moused over then it truns the normal link blue. Did you want it that way?

  2. And now it’s blue. Never thought about it. Pretty much everything is custom, so I’m sure I forgot lots of stuff.

    I am currently moving 500mb worth of images directly from server one to server two. I am watching the process, but this is totally being done server-to-server via the command line. This is real nerd work!

  3. So far looks good here in Cromwell, Geoff. Apparently your new website has a new RSS feed because my old feed stopped working and I had to set a new feed for this one. Keep up the good work on the blog. It sounds like a lot of work, but it is obvious that you enjoy it.

  4. Looking at it quickly, I love the new type! Though I have 20/20, I think the choice of font and size is easy on the eyes. Nice job!

  5. ON this day in blog history! WOWW neat feature…The archives section is way better too.

    This is very nice Geoff! Im sure it was quite difficult to manage all the content from years of blogging in a different publishing format.

    http://i47.tinypic.com/1jrtdt.png –> That’s a screenshot from my iMac with 1920×1200 res. Very vibrant with the blue and red (& patriotic 🙂

  6. Thanks all. I am finding little things here and there that still need re-doing, but it’s been much less painful than feared!

  7. Geoff,
    Awesome job!! Geeks of the world commend you on a successful transition!
    Surprised you had hair left after all the late nights!!

    1. Will try and do it tonight. I wish I was better with the .htaccess file, but I’ll give it a shot

      later that same evening….

      It’s done and I think it should work.

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