OK, it looks like everything is done. One final note, if you read this site via RSS and you got some sort of note in your RSS feed directing you here could you either comment here or send me an email? It looks like some of my hacking around with RSS feeds worked such that the old feed URL gives you a message with the new URL, but it's difficult to be certain. Thanks!
The Move
OK folks. I’ve pulled the trigger on some changes, and they should propagate out in about two hours or so. If things go well than many folks will just redirect to the new site. If things go poorly … well here’s a few good things to know.
The blog should be accessible at /blog If it isn’t it will definitely be at /blog. If you want a RSS feed you can get one there.
The existing blog URL at http://www.hiddenjester.com/~tsanders should work, but I can’t test that until the DNS records propagate.
Hopefully this will all go fairly smoothly.
Service Interruption?
Hey folks.
I'm hip-deep in ridding myself of this troublesome web server at the moment. I haven't actually decided where the blog will go and whether the archives will actually be online at the end of everything.
But I'm planning on making that decision today. I may even pull the trigger on some DNS fun and games soonish and that could mean this here site might disappear. Here's a few notes:
1 ) I'll have a blog somewhere in some format when this is done.
2 ) That somewhere may not be the current URL. It's possible I'll put the blog at the top www domain and remove the vestigial "reserved for development" page. That's not terribly likely because it would restrict my future web development paths. What's more likely is that the blog will end up being a page something like blog.hiddenjester.com and www.hiddenjester.com would remain a simple static page that I could tweak as needed.
At any rate here's the key bit to know: if this site goes away for a few days do not panic. If you visit mainly by RSS feeds or a bookmark be sure to set a bookmark at http://www.hiddenjester.com. That will be where I post the newest location of the blog.
Read moreRegistering as a user
If you've registered as a user (in order to comment) and never received a password please try the login link again and click "Lost your password?" and hopefully it will work. If it doesn't let me know. I don't think there's anybody registered who doesn't know my email address, or you could DM me on Twitter.
Turns out that it was working for me but if your mail host was restrictive on the domain name of the mail sending machine the mail would get bounced. But now you'll get an email from Gmail so it should work fine.
Read moreWhile I'm Fussing About
Since I'm already fussing with the blog I went ahead and did something I've been meaning to do for a while: installed WP Super Cache. This was triggered mainly because some of the sidebar stuff seems to take forever to load, so I wanted to make sure there wasn't any weird load on my end. Every so often I see some sort of comment to the effect of "If you're running WordPress you should have Super Cache" and it finally sunk in.
Everything should be fine but if you see oddness let me know.
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