House of Eratosthenes

We-ell…if Sarah Palin has the decency and candor to come clean and let the people of Alaska know that they need a change if they’re going to get their money’s worth…I think the nobodies who never make time to not stop by and not read The Blog That Nobody Reads, are deserving of the same decency. I think we could handle this behind the scenes, make it invisible, take the veil-over-the-statue approach, but what’s the point. I don’t see the upside. Might as well spill the beans now.

We’re moving.

For the last three years, we’ve been squatting on Terry “Trip” Trippany’s domain, which he runs as one of his many pursuits. You may know him from his Newsbusters column. Back in the summer of ’06, he approached us about the idea of converting to WordPress, which we’d already been thinking about for quite some time because we were on Blogger. As an added bonus, he offered to do the hosting duties as well, which is more than what it sounds like. He does a very able job of not only keeping things going, but enabling countermeasures against the sampbots, the beasties, the hackers, the vandals…et cetera. We’ve been thrilled to benefit from such a capable hand in this. Plus, in response to those who come asking, we’ve been able to say we get our hosting services from a real fan. He approached us because he liked our stuff. We like the shop he runs. It’s been a good match.

Well, there’s some money involved in this, which has been coming out of his wallet instead of ours. That never was fair, and with the economy the way it is, it’s no longer workable. It’s not like we’re being kicked out, the fact of the matter is Trip is spread thin.

Mug We already have another domain. Had it for a few years now. The bottleneck here, has been — nothing but — our huge fat ass and the attendant laziness associated therein. So now we got a deadline.

Knowing how well I work under pressure, along with how the inertia in my ass works, my crystal ball says…and this is just a best-guess…we’ll probably have a practice run this weekend, followed by an actual cutover the weekend after that, worst-case scenario. That’s my rough-ball-park timeline. I think. I know, you’re just in awe at my sense of certainty. I are an experienced projek manager, don’t forget.

Anyway, now you know what we know. We’ll try to make it as smooth a shift as possible. But one other thing that’s gonna be absolutely certain…the URL is going to change. Sorry ’bout that. But it’s okay…there’s only one coffee mug that has ever been manufactured with this old link, which is at work as I write this (pictured, to the right). That’ll be my private collector’s item.

Wish us luck. And let us know if you have any extra cardboard boxes.

Wish you luck? With a UPS lady like that? You’re positively ROLLING in good fortune.

(badda-da-boomp)

In reality… this is a serious undertaking. So, yeah: Good Luck. May your gremlins and unanticipated issues be non-existent or few, at the very least.
- bpenni | 07/08/2009 @ 01:14
Unless it’s some huge disaster — and from the comments we have been browsing from folks who’ve completed such a mission, it would appear ours would be the first — we’ll be coming after YOU, my friend.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Keeping your place on Blogger is like sheltering and showcasing a fine classic vintage automobile in a paper bag. Aggravation. Life has a way of introducing you to it, whenever & wherever it wants to; take steps to reduce it when & where you can.

Moving from Blogger to WordPress is like voting against Barack Obama: Try as you might, you can’t find anyone who’s done it and has regrets about doing it.
- mkfreeberg | 07/08/2009 @ 09:02
M-heh. If that’s who’s delivering for UPS these days, I’m going to order one thing from Amazon per day and sit home and wait for each one to be delivered to my doorstep!

I’m still on Blogger primarily because it’s free. And actually, I have very few, if any problems with it anymore. I’d like to try one of the others… but I’d like to move everything to the new blog and have a script on the old one that not only re-directs to the new one but also brings along the name of the post and lands you on the right one in the new blog.

But not really knowing where to begin on that, and it being too much trouble for me to look into myself… inertia takes hold.

Naturally, I’ll be following my Friend from the Golden (Calf) State wherever his blog might move.
- philmon | 07/08/2009 @ 15:34
Looks like one way or the other, the standard export-import procedures all go through ASCII text. Which would mean you can take a slick, capable programmer’s editor and do a find-replace. Do some random checks on this post & that one, and you’re done.

I’ll let you know if it really does turn out to be that simple…
- mkfreeberg | 07/08/2009 @ 23:45
I’ll let you know if it really does turn out to be that simple…

Heh. I got a tenner and a couple bottles of St. Pauli Girl that sez it AIN’T. Nothing is ever “that simple” when it comes to migration. Nothing. 😉
- bpenni | 07/09/2009 @ 14:26
The picture on that cup looks like Gerard in shadow face.

Good luck on the move, Morgan.

Buck, listen to ol’ Morgan and move your fine ass over to WordPress. 😉
- Daphne | 07/09/2009 @ 15:33
The picture on that cup looks like Gerard in shadow face.

Never thought of that before. Maybe I’m his evil twin.

Seriously though, that was made from a picture my girlfriend took of me up by Union Valley Reservoir in El Dorado National Forest, summer of ’05. I didn’t even find out about Gerard’s wonderful work until Rush Limbaugh read from The American Castrati on his show, that following winter. So the Shadow-Indiana-Jones avatar predates Gerard, at least in these parts.

Buck, on another subject I think you need to get ready to mail off that beer. Hope the UPS crew in Portales looks as good as they do here.
- mkfreeberg | 07/09/2009 @ 15:48

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