House of Eratosthenes

Logo Yup, this is the new place, welcome to our virtual house-warming party. We made some minor aesthetic changes, hopefully you’re finding things a bit more readable. New furniture isn’t here yet, just toss your coats on the bed…

I didn’t run through a complete test script, so consider yourselves beta-testers. The “Items of Interest” in the sidebar — they aren’t done yet, they still point back at the old place. That last item was more a note-to-self for my sake, than anything else…we’ll be covering that… (Update: We got off our lazy fat asses and took care of it.)

Anyway, let us know what you think. Glad you could make it.

Big thanks to Terry “Trip” Trippany, the CEO, head waiter chief cook & bottle washer of Webloggin. For all his help getting things exported, cut over, set up, and last but not least all the free rent for the last three years.

For those who are just discovering us, here are the key dates:

11/12/04 – We get started on Blogger, with its big, soothing sans-serif font letters that say “Create a Blog. It’s Free.” We go for it, and the first post goes up.

Summer ’06 – By this time we’re several hundred blog posts into the experiment and we’ve started our Sitemeter account to keep track of who’s hitting us. Trip discovers us, says something about liking our writing, and we start swapping links.

10/20/06 – We become an official member of Webloggin, a community of bloggers scattered across the country, promoting blogging excellence. At about that time, Trip really starts hammering us about moving off of Blogger and getting onto WordPress, which we’d been thinking about doing for quite some time. (Blogger, in those days, was far less speedy & reliable compared to the way they tell me it is now.) When he volunteers his hosting space, we greedily accept.

A jump-command is left back at the old Blogger domain, which ricochets visitors there to the Webloggin address. It still works as I write this.

Late ’07 – We purchase the domain here and start misusing it horribly, using the FTP services to put it to work as pretty much just a 5GB virtual thumb drive. But you can tell from the domain name what our ultimate plan is…we’re just not getting around to things very well.

Last week – Our hand is forced when Trip announces he’s getting out of the hosting business.

Sometime soon – Another jump command will be left back at Webloggin, forwarding any visitors there, to here.

Any further details desired, probably the best way to get ’em is to poke around, peruse the Items of Interest, starting with the FAQ.

Cool new digs, Morgan. Looks good, lotsa space. Congratulations!

Sooooo, where’s the chicks?
- AnonymousGuy | 07/12/2009 @ 23:33
Blogger really IS better these days. I’m a year behind you, but I’ve noticed the improvement in the product since I began in November of ’05.

So… do I owe you that tenner and St. Pauli Girl? Was the migration as seamless as you make it out to be?
- bpenni | 07/13/2009 @ 12:44
I’m pretty sure I could get away with it if I chose to make it look seamless…but…

1. We struggled with an sql-insert file that had an extra field, which forced the insert command to bail. Trip was able to remember where the versions got mismatched as soon as I pointed out to him what was happening.

2. We wrestled with a get-latest-version approach with regard to installing the plug-ins…ten of them…before I figured out I was guilty of manufacturing my own problems, and went with the opposite get-version-actually-used-when-Trip-did-the-export approach.

3. Two of the plug-ins made my dashboard console unusable, or difficult to use, so I deactivated them.

4. Not sure if this counts, but I’m mystified by what you and Rob are saying about the font being hard to read. If I had vision issues, the font at the old place would’ve just about killed me, that’s one of the reasons why I trashed it. I’d sure like to see what you guys are seeing…at both places…

Do you still owe the beer? It seems to me the proper way to resolve that is paper-scissors-rock. We’ll have to arrange a trip sometime, and bring our own cold twelve-pack just in case we lose out on the tie-breaker.
- mkfreeberg | 07/13/2009 @ 13:12
Beautiful, Morgan. I feel right at home. Congratulations on the smooth transition.

I’m so glad you didn’t redesign the this pretty purple place and I’ve updated the linkage at my place.

If I could offer one small suggestion? The font, it’s super tiny and killing my eyes. A little bigger would be splendid.
- Daphne | 07/13/2009 @ 17:17

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