There’s trouble in the world of social networking.
twitter? too much follower-spam and no real integration with my blog.
facebook? doesn’t work outside the walled garden.
blogger? there were always niggles and they haven’t gone away.
So I had to buy a domain and hosting a while back. I setup a WordPress install on it and today the switch was flipped. I’m going to consolidate now from my sprawling online presence back to something a bit more manageable.
So the home of me on the internet is now yasmar.net. I’m going to stop using twitter and probably facebook too. The old ramsay.webhop.org redirect will continue to work for old links.
My blogger blog is redirecting here through some template magic and a PHP script I put together. That’s what held this up for so long. There used to be a blogger feature combined with a wordpress plugin to make this seamless but Google started putting up a big warning before redirecting and the wordpress plugin doesn’t work anymore. So I’m going old school and using meta refresh tags to get people from the old blog to the new one. The PHP script is given a blogger post id which it uses to look up a wordpress post id, then it creates a redirect.
Hosting your own blog means being more careful with backups. I setup a daily backup job months ago now so that angle is covered.
Despite flipping the switch, the new blog is very much a work in progress. I’ve barely started to play with things. Please bear with me during the ongoing work. Hopefully I won’t break things too badly.
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