Having had some time to play again on the site, I made several changes to the way the site functions, and what you can do here including:

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When I decided to change over my website recently, I installed the new blog ‘engine’ into a subdirectory (you can see that this is so by looking in the address bar of the browser). All of my stories have been archived over the years in various search engines, and to route requests for these stories to their new locations would have taken me some time to code, so I blew it off. Instead, I decided to put up a custom 404 error page, so people who don’t get where they thought they were going at least end up on my site with a nice message and search box instead of just the unfriendly white default server page. As a side effect of the custom page, I get emailed whenever a person hits this page with the address *from which* they were coming so I can attempt to fix the problem. As it turns out, this little change led me right to the Chinese Spam Mafia.

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Even though I’ve used Geeklog for over three and a half years, and use it for other sites as well, I decided to convert my personal blog over to Wordpress this past week. I’ve been playing around with Drupal as well (which I quite like), but really what I do on this personal site doesn’t really call for something with that kind of horsepower. This site is not about a community sharing information and creating content, this is about my ranting and raving about stuff that goes on day to day. It’s more of an online journal than anything else.

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Hopefully now that the server move is complete and the DNS propagation is done with we can get on with the business of blogging again. Things that went missing for several days included my link page (I didn’t realize how much I used that), the photo gallery , the Book of Song (and at an inconvenient time) the podcast, not to mention my notes page and this blog as well as email (though I was able to continue to communicate on the various forums of which I am a member, and through gmail). Welcome back!

in8sworld was offline for several hours tonight while I upgraded the site to use the latest version of the CMS (Content management software) that runs all this. There are several new features, not the least of which is support for ‘trackbacks’. I have been running Geeklog for almost three years now since this site was launched and I’ve learned a lot of php and mysql using it. Unfortunately, one feature of the site is still not back online - the ‘Quotation Corner’ is offline until I can figure out what’s up.A new logo has been posted in honor of the upgrade based on Prof. Guilbert’s submission #3 in 2004.