{"id":11,"date":"2006-06-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2006-06-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T12:00:00","slug":"my-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/my-new-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"My new blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, not so much a new blog as a new home. Tired of not being able to run any decent software because of hosting restrictions, I’ve decided it’s time to bite the bullet and move hosting providers. I’ve been extremely keen to avoid any significant work on web stuff because I have enough on my plate as it is, and can be a bit of a Web Luddite but sometimes you have to put in a little more effort for (hopefully) much better results.<\/p>\n

The most important step of the move is probably this blog because a) It’s one of the most popular areas of the site; and b) It’s the most different. Everything else is just html, pdfs or docs, so it’s just a case of copying the files over.<\/p>\n

Using serendipity<\/a> gives me a few things I’m very keen on<\/p>\n

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  1. A template chooser for the reader, so you don’t have to put up with my bizarre web design choices<\/li>\n
  2. The ability to subscribe to a blog so that you don’t need to check back for follow-up comments – the blogging software will notify you. I think this is one of the most important features for me.<\/li>\n
  3. Oh, and it’s got Howard’s Calendar<\/a> 😉<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course there are bound to be one or two teething problems. The biggest at the moment is my inability to get Blogger to export a fairly large existing blog but it’s difficult to know whether that’s to do with Blogger’s problems this week (I picked a good time to get out, I reckon) or it’s just going to be a problem. I’m working on it, though.<\/p>\n

    In the meantime, I’m interested in both positive and negative comments about the new look and feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well, not so much a new blog as a new home. Tired of not being able to run any decent software because of hosting restrictions, I’ve decided it’s time to bite the bullet and move hosting providers. I’ve been extremely keen to avoid any significant work on web stuff because I have enough on my… Continue reading My new blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":898,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/orion-numbers-and-other-bits-and-pieces\/","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Orion Numbers and other bits and pieces","date":"November 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Prompted by Jeff Moss' blog, I've been trying out Orion on a couple of servers. I've blogged about it over on the ISP4400 blog. 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