Slower Than A Speeding Bullet

Posted on October 17, 2007 by admin

Changing your blog from one webhost to another is not much fun. Especially if you have a whole bunch of plugins. But in my case it’s done now and the 30 minutes I allowed myself to do this soon turned into much more than that. In future I’ll make the changes in a different sequence, but from that point of view it’s been a good learning experience.

If you have a blog and you ever think about changing your hosting, I’d suggest you allow yourself a lot more time than you think it’ll take – and then double it!

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Moving Home

Posted on October 17, 2007 by admin

I’ve just done the equivalent of moving house. I’ve transferred this blog from a webhost account I’m closing to a new, cheaper on (I found a better deal).

And just like moving house I still have the equivalent of unopened boxes to work through. My theme needs updating and I’ve changed the page structure. I have no idea what that will do navigation, but it’s for the best because my blog wasn’t very well organised where it lived before. It ran quite slow too. I had to optimise the database every few days. The hosting account I’d had for quite some time wasn’t serving me well anymore so it was time to bite the bullet and make some changes.

Well, back to unpacking!

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Update: I decided that I’d go back to the old permalink structure, because when I reviewed both types I realised I didn’t need to fix what wasn’t broken.

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The Long Kiss Goodbye

Posted on October 12, 2007 by admin

Chapter 1
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Looking at the tubes connected to her frail, wizened body, I felt a terrible cloying sickness inside me.

Death wasn’t something I wanted to contemplate. She was going to die: no question. The only question was how soon and how painfully. And how much would I let it affect me.
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