Nothing to see, move along. That seems to be the message coming from Techmeme. Not because the site is broken but because everyone’s gone home. The site hasn’t “discovered” any updates in hours, let alone days. This is a great sign that the blogosphere is a predominantly human device. Techmeme which scans the blogosphere has ground to a halt with regards to fresh content, meaning people are enjoying christmas, visiting family, and playing with their new...

Ok. So I’ve moved the blog content and shifted the DNS records. The pain in the ass was moving the content. Although there’s several ways of importing content into WordPress there’s bugger-all means to get the content out of Typo. I tried the RSS route but that failed. You need to use WXR, which is WordPress’ namespace-extended RSS and generating a feed in that vernacular was too much of a pain. In the end, I ended up cutting-and-pasting the content, which is slightly ironic/embarrasing for someone in charge of technology at a company that develops and sells content migration...

I’ve decided to stop bleeding money through web hosting. I’m currently spending $10 here, £15 there… a month and all I’m doing is blogging. These days my basic web hosting needs can be pretty much fulfilled by services from Flickr, Wordpress, and GMail. Having bought a MacBook Pro also means I have a Unix environment with me all the time and don’t need one supplied through a hosted provider. I looked at several engines (WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and TypePad) and you can tell by the URL which blogging engine won. WordPress seemed to provide the best bang for...