Posts from October 2006

The Council House will host the Uefa Cup Final in 2008.

Unfortunately, City won't be appearing but at least the revenue might relieve some of the MASSIVE (£60m) debt.

The migration from andyc.wordpress.com is now complete. All articles have been migrated. All comments have been lovingly preserved. All the internal links have been fixed (by hand) in a long and painstaking process. Robots and spiders are crawling all over the new site.

The only omission was a handful of WordPress images. I realised that I was a little hasty in deleting my old WordPress blog otherwise I could have easily retrieved these files too. Or a simple 'wget' of the complete site would have done the job.

Time for a checkpoint, I think. Activate the WP-DB Backup plugin and take a full backup of the MySQL database. Export the complete blog (posts and comments) to XML. As for Charlie - well that's yours truly for not taking a checkpoint earlier.

I decided I didn't like the format of the ' Related Posts' plugin and uninstalled it. However, when I reversed the database changes, I inadvertently deleted two key WP tables instead of column attributes. This idiotic error broke my blog. Totally.

So I was forced to delete my shiny, new WordPress installation and database, and repeat the whole migration process again (including the time consuming and painstaking change to all internal links) from my local WordPress installation. Lucky I took that copy otherwise I would have been really stuck.

Still, I am getting pretty good at the migration from hosted to hosting WordPress now and, finally, I understand the importance of backups.

Manchester City - Theatre of Comedy

• Pearce uses a cuddly horse
• Barton bares his mouth to Everton fans. A marriage made in heaven.

I have been pretty impressed with Dreamhost so far:

• Configured putty for SSH access.
• Installed Joomla (one-click)
• Upgraded to PHP5 (one-click)
• Installed MediaWiki (one-click)
• Installed Gregarius (all by myself)

The only minor issues I have encountered is that I can't disable telnet (insecure) and my analog stats didn't get refreshed today.

Dreamhost have a blog, a Wiki, support forums and any idiotic questions (after ignoring all of those) have all been answered promptly and courteously.

Well, you could at least sign the petition if you feel that strongly

I had a blind date this morning at 06.55. An early start admittedly but this lady would surely be worth it. The ladys name was Iris. I was supposed to meet her in Terminal 1 at London Heathrow.

Iris was flying in from Russia after a short courtship (19 hours) on the Internet. I even had an letter (IM) from Iris. Iris said she'd be waiting on the right before you reach the shops (which was worrying enough in itself).

So I slept downstairs on the sofa, snatched some sleep and I booked the taxi 30 minutes earlier than normal.

But, of course, Iris was nowhere to be seen. Stood up once again. Why. oh why, didn't Iris show up ? What's wrong with me ? Will I ever find true love ? I am disconsolate. I am a broken man.

Turns out that Iris only wants to date high flying, big earning, international travellers with BA Silver (or above) and isn't interested in peasants in flying to Newcastle. Even if they are staying in the Malmaison.

I recently read some homework (Religious Education) about the life and times of Jesus Christ that included the following gems:

• Jesus came to earth through the Virgin Mary
• There was another incident where Jesus was crucified

The WordPress rich text editor is pretty good but has an odd bug which is a little irritating. It keeps confusing paragraph end with line break

I tried Writely which worked but has no support for adding categories, omits the title and uses an obscure post slug so now I am trying Performancing for Firefox which has none of these limitations and works fine.