To make a long story short
by jasondv on January 22, 2009
My new MacBook, x-rayed
That scanned file that was the result of the fortuitous combination of a new MacBook, intense curiosity, and an available x-ray machine multiplied traffic to the old site by a hundredfold and caused my account to exceed the bandwidth cap about a week and a half later. Since my hosting contract was due to expire in another couple of weeks and I had already arranged to move to another hosting service, I just let the deadline lapse.
I originally wanted to move everything from the old site to the new one but I quickly realized that I did not have the coding chops required to both recreate the mySQL database and upgrade the WordPress installation from version 2.3 to version 2.7, and ended up deciding to start all over again.
For what it’s worth, the new look (I’m using the Sirup theme) jibes much more with the “simplify everything” mantra that I am trying to follow this year. In short, I hope to do more writing and less design tweaking on the blog this year.
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