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By: Retiring The Humanaught | Ryan McLaughlin

Retiring The Humanaught | Ryan McLaughlin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:57:28 +0000

[...] somewhat akin to the promise of flying cars. I continued blogging this way until May 2006 when I moved completely to a self-hosted blog using WordPress for the first time. Considering what I do with my days now, it was an auspicious move to be [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 28 May 2006 23:35:13 +0000

yeah. Though if you’re looking for hosting, I’d actually recommend Site Ground now. IDSoft isn’t bad, but Site Ground gives you more for the money. Hey, if you’re going to sign up for either host, lemme know… if you do it through me I get a chip of my renewal fees or something (and it doesn’t cost you anything extra).

As for the GoogleAds, whachutalkinbout willis? There’s GoogleAds in the sidebar. Sidebar disappears when you go to a specific post though. Might change this in the future. Not sure.

As for procrastination – I certainly don’t mean that I don’t get things done, they’re just not the things I really “should” be doing. I’ve a few things that should be taking priority over this site (Chinese studying, other site design, buying tickets home, planning school stuff), but I always end up putting it on hold when I get an idea in my head…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 May 2006 21:47:21 +0000

Never mind about the first comment’s questions above. I forgot about, but then remembered, your hosting page at http://www.thehumanaught.com/hosting.html. I’ve also been reading the WordPress docs, so I see how it can be done.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 May 2006 20:23:21 +0000

P.S. You always seem to put yourself down as a terrible procrastinator, but let me just say, as an observer on the outside, you seem to me to be a helluva productive guy.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 May 2006 20:14:59 +0000

My RSS feed here stopped working a couple of days ago — now I know why. I like the look, although, I’d say, I liked the look of the old one too (I’m pretty easy to please!)

Lemme ask you something — who hosts your site? Can you run any kind of software on your host that you want, or is WordPress something that your hosting service provides? I’m assuming you use a shared hosting service, right? Also, what about the Google Ads — did you decide to eject them after the problems you described a while back?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 28 May 2006 06:20:37 +0000

@db: Hey! Thanks for the kind words man. That was the idea, to clean things up a bit and make transitions to other parts of the site a little more seemless… a bit more ground to cover yet, but it’s getting there.

As for the switch over, it was MUCH easier than I had expected. I likely wouldn’t have switched if WordPress didn’t have a handy “import” feature which can import from most major blogging software (blogger, livejournal, etc.). This will also make it easy for me to finally bring over all my old LiveJournal entries from when I was backpacking a couple years ago.

WordPress is much more robust in features compared to Blogger… really just infinitely more so. The learning curve is a bit steeper, but all-in-all it’s not tough, and there’s loads of support.

By: db

db — Sun, 28 May 2006 03:31:43 +0000

love it……looks great! nice and clean look. i like this theme. very slick. i think chairman mao would approve.

how hard was the switch from blogger to wordpress? did ya lose any of yer content? links? i’ve been thinking about switching my blog over to wordpress or typepad, but I fear losing 4+ years of content. oh my…..that would be bad.

i keep waiting for blogger to upgrade their software and features, but it just hasn’t happened. so, just wondering how your data migration from blogger to wordpress went…

oh, yer not procrastinating, yer learning how to do cool stuff, which will come in handy in some future place and time!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 28 May 2006 02:41:02 +0000

Just making sure this thing is working…