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free 20GB memory stick

Forget Box.Net. Forget Mozy. Forget memory sticks. Forget USB hard drives.

DreamHost have upgraded the ‘basic’ $7.95 per month hosting package from 20GB to a staggering 200GB disk storage.

As this humble blog currently occupies 0.01%, I have plenty of capacity for my photos, documents, CV (in txt, doc, PDF, LaTeX formats) and all my homework. In fact, as my hard disk is a paltry 40GB, I have room for absolutely everything.

And if that wasn’t enough, Dreamhost are giving me a further 1GB every week.

Manchester City in Cup Final shock !

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.

Checkpoint Charlie

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.

30 years and counting

Manchester City - Theatre of Comedy

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

initial impressions of Dreamhost

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.

full feed readers of the world unite and take over

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

stood up by Iris

I had a blind date this morning at 06.55. An early start admittedly but this lady would surely be worth it. The lady’s 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).

from the mouths of babes

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

blog editors

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.

from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

Choose domain name which is taken. Choose another domain name.

Sign-up with Dreamhost despite recent bad press. All the other hosting providers look similar and all have supporters and critics and, to be fair, Dreamhost were quickest (and most helpful) to reply to a simple technical enquiry.

Payment processing takes a long, long time which is a little disconcerting.

Install WordPress 2.0.4 using One-Click installation. Shortly receive email stating ‘Blog creation failed. Please try again later’ which is worrying.