Caught In The Whirlwind
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Thinking Of Moving (My Blog)
Aug 11th 2009
I’ve gotten a little tired with the lack of updates that have been made to Vox over the past several years. It’s like Six Apart has totally forgotten about us over here.
And that made me think that there’s just about 3 years of my life archived on this website and there’s no way for me to get at it if the worst happens and Vox goes down. And I’d hate to lose a lot of these postings. So I’ve decided I’m going to start transitioning over to hosting my blog on my own website.
Back when I first started with Vox I tried wordpress hosted on my own site and didn’t like it quite as much. It wasn’t as smooth, didn’t have as good support for multimedia stuff and I had to really deck it out with plugins in order to get it working how I wanted it to. But I tried it a couple days ago again and it’s definitely come quite a long way.
Right now I’m posting in both places at the same time while I go post by post and transfer 3 years worth of posts over to my own wordpress. It’s currently located at http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/, but that’s not the final design at all and there’s a bunch of fine tuning I need to do to make it work right. I’m still going to post both places for the time being…going to take me a while to transfer everything over. I’m 1/10th of the way done now.
Even if I don’t make the transition entirely, I’ll at least have a backup of what has become my online journal. I definitely don’t want to lose some of these notes and experiences.
Easter 2009
Apr 14th 2009
The post is late, I know, but I was a bit busy yesterday with a lot of running around. So you're getting it today.
I went over to my parents for a little Easter get together, as I had mentioned previously.
One of the purposes of the visit was to go through a bunch of old stuff that my parents had stored from when I was a kid, including all of my saved stuff from grade school. That was a pretty cool, to see that old stuff again. I seemed to have an issue with spelling (well, a continuing issue with spelling…they just hadn't invented the spell checker yet). I wrote that NASA launched a satellite that weighed 300 ponds…
I brought my XBox 360 over and played some Madden with my dad in the afternoon because we haven't figured out what to do with our weekly football playing since I moved 25-30 minutes away. I ended up winning 2 games and losing 2 games, but it was fun.
By the time we were done with that my sister and her husband had arrived and we ate followed by a game of Apples to Apples which was as fun as always. They brought the expansion pack for the game this time which added more cards.
All in all a fun little family gathering. However, considering the amount of tasty treats that I came away with (cookies and a chocolate bunny. You know, standard easter stuff) I'm going to have to hit the gym soon…
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