Aren’t “new” and “improved” mutually exclusive? That always bothered me. Anyway, with Blogger dropping support for ftp publishing I have moved to a self-hosted WordPress instance and migrated all 1,343 posts over. Unfortunately, comments in Haloscan didn’t make it and I’m not sure they can be migrated at all–but I’m still looking at that*. Meanwhile, WordPress has its own very nice commenting system.

The URL for new posts will be http://www.project-insomnia.com/wp/ for a while, until I do some cleaning and straightening in the root.

Feeds are in your browser’s address bar and there’s an actual, working site-search tool in the upper left corner for your convenience. If you see anything that needs fixing, please let me know in comments. I do know that some photos attached to posts didn’t make it across.

*Followup: Haloscan “upgraded” to a new paid service around the same time as Blogger discontinued their ftp support. Old comments are not transferable.

(The following is the last post from the old Blogger-published site. With the automatic redirects now in place, it’s no longer accessible; trying the original link will result in a 404 and not-very-helpful search results. The post is therefore archived here for reference with the original publish date.)

Moving Day

This blog is managed on Blogger’s platform but published by ftp to my own server. Blogger has served notice that they are ending support for publishing by ftp, and the deadline is May 1.

Given past issues (and no, I never did migrate after that incident) I’m not about to hand over full hosting to Google. I’ve installed a self-hosted WordPress instance thanks to the one-click magic of DreamHost’s control panel and have migrated all posts (except this one) to the new system. This post right here will be the final post from Blogger.

The temporary new address for Project Insomnia is: http://www.project-insomnia.com/wp/

I need to do some cleaning up before I can have the WordPress instance running in the root, so for now it’ll be in the /wp subdirectory. I’ll also have to choose and/or customize a WordPress template, install some plugins and generally update things now that we’re firmly in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Thanks for reading and I hope you continue doing so during and after the transition.
Labels: administrivia, blog, blogger, dreamhost, news, wordpress

(Another note: despite what I said in the above post, I’m probably keeping the blog in the /wp subdirectory.)

I love all forms of hot-and-spicy food. Some of my favorites come from Jing Jing, Reposado and The Old Pro in Palo Alto, though the all-time winner was hot wings at Dave's Last Resort in Lake Worth, Florida. The sauce on those wings, for some reason, hit me harder than anything I'd ever eaten before or since. But in a good way.

Star Trek was my first, immediate answer to this question. I can't really think of another series I'd willing watch over and over again.

Star Trek (Original Series)
I have seen every episode multiple, probably hundreds of times. I can usually win at “Name That Episode” (identifying the episode as soon as it starts). Doesn’t matter. The original Star Trek retains its innocent adventure qualities mixed with some solid science fiction storytelling. Later series, while entertaining, always seemed to want to bash you over the head with a message.

Of course there are plenty of things I do every day, but here is a representative sample:

Check ze Tweets (und alzo emails)
With (almost) everyone I know using Twitter, and (really almost) everyone I know using email, checking Twitter and email is one of the first things I do when I wake up. I use the fantastic webOS Twitter client Tweed on my Palm Pre, and the equally fantastic Echofon desktop client on my Mac.

Feed the cats
There’s never a chance of forgetting to feed the cats. Watson, in particular, will remind me every couple of minutes when I’m working at home (even though official dinner time isn’t ’til late afternoon).

Watch The Rachel Maddow Show
Technically this is a five-day-a-week thing, not an every-day thing, but I do it without fail every one of those five days. I admire her no-BS style and her refusal to drop a story until it’s fully told.