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2012-03
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Finally Coming To My Senses.
2012-03-12.
This very moment, I decided that I’m going to abandon my home-grown blog platform. I haven’t updated it in quite a while, and the thought of doing so fills me with dread. I just don’t have the time or energy for it right now (my free time is dedicated to writing). So I guess I’ll be switching to WordPress pretty soon.
The only problem is that I will likely lose every one of my old posts. Not that they were anything special, mind you, but still, it’s part of my online history, such as it is. I suppose I’ll have to put them on an “old site” link somehow. But how to keep all of the post links in the Google index working? Hrm.
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It Is Done.
2012-03-12.
This is now a WordPress blog. Let the hackers and spammers now commence exploiting WordPress bugs.
The old site is still available, kind of, at http://thomaskrehbiel.com/oldindex.php.
Through judicious manipulation of the .htaccess file, old links to posts should still work, so hopefully I won’t drop off of Google completely.
No, I am not at all happy with the theme yet.
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Comment Rules.
2012-03-16.
Here are my rules for comments: If your anomymous comment contains a web site link but does not in any way mention something specifically from my post, it’s going to be considered spam. Just letting you know. I apologize in advance if I accidentally moderate something legitimate.
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No-Go Importing Paged Atom Feeds.
2012-03-18.
Today I was pondering importing all of my old posts into WordPress. This is not quite as simple as you might think when trying to import from a custom blog platform. WordPress has this handy RSS Import plugin, but it requires the XML to be a file on your hard drive.
No problem, right? You just open up the source of the feed on the old site (which, in my case, is actually an Atom feed) and save it to a file. Wait, not so fast. That old feed has like 5000 posts in it. And the feed only shows the last 15. There’s a whole chain of rel=next links to follow to get the entire feed, 15 at a time.
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Welcome Back.
2012-03-31.
If you had previously been following /blog.feed or /stream.feed or /comments.feed, you may or may not have noticed that you weren’t getting any new posts. You probably thought it was because I only post every six months, but in fact, this time, it was because I forgot to redirect them to WordPress’s feeds, which are /feed and /comments/feed. So, if you were subscribed to the old feeds, welcome back!
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2012-04
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Spam Attacks.
2012-04-01.
Okay, I’m thinking about going back to my custom blog platform. I never got comment spam on it. (At least I never noticed it. :) But now I’m looking at WordPress telling me to moderate 13 spam comments, including this gem:
“Attractive component of content. I just stumbled upon your blog and in accession capital to claim that I acquire in fact enjoyed account your weblog posts. Any way I will be subscribing in your augment and even I fulfillment you get entry to consistently rapidly.”
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The Spam Fight Goes On.
2012-04-07.
Continuing the fight against spam.
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2012-11
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New Theme.
2012-11-18.
I installed a new theme, obviously. I like the simplicity of it, and it looks pretty good on mobile devices, so I think I will stick with it for a while. It’s called “Blaskan.”
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