Careful readers may have noticed small changes here and there. Today, I performed a somewhat bigger upgrade behind the scenes. Everything seems to be working like before… Still, if you see something fishy, please let me know.
I have a cold, so my posting frequency is down a bit. Anyway, this is what people are searching for when they get to my site:
I also get a ton of visits through Google image search because of this picture.
http://del.icio.us/tag/banjos leads to my site, and I am currently the #1 result for http://www.answers.com/should%20i%20stop%20playing%20WoW.
Why do I even bother?
1. According to Google Analytics, traffic on my site went from about 25 hits a day to 200 hits a day, since the transfer.
2. According to FeedBurner (owned by Google), subscribers to my feed dropped from about 375 to 85 since the transfer. Is anyone having trouble with the feed?
My guess is both systems are a bit confused. Oddly enough, SiteMeter doesn’t show any major changes in traffic.
3. I just now realized existing permalinks to individual blog posts don’t work anymore, because WordPress and TypePad generate different URLs. I am now wondering what I could do about this. I don’t think I can trivially change the WordPress settings to generate TypePad-style URLs. In theory I could do some kind of if-permalink-doesn’t-exist-look-for-a-matching-blog-entry kind of thing, but it wouldn’t be the most trivial thing in the world (mainly because I don’t know WordPress and PHP that well). On the other hand, I don’t think that many people link to individual blog posts. It’s mainly this one.
Update: Of course, it just struck me that I do a lot of intra-site linking. Gah!
Update: Permalinks should work now. I looked into four dozen ways of solving this and got sidetracked when my local PHP stopped talking to my local MySQL and I noticed I have two versions of PHP installed - I will spare you the details. In the end, I solved it by simply executing 2 SQL commands and changing one WordPress setting… The feed subscriber count is still down, although it seems I am not the only FeedBurner user with this problem.
Please post a comment if you notice something unusual about the site.
Update: My feed subscribers are back, yay!
You can now reach this blog again through the usual URL (with or without ‘www’). The temporary URL at dreamhosters.com will disappear soon.
There are still a few small issues to work out, but most of it is done now. I have changed hosting from TypePad to Dreamhost, blogging platform from TypePad to WordPress, and I have transferred my domain.
I initiated the transfer of my domain last Sunday. The domain would have expired on Tuesday. The transfer process takes a week… this meant my site was in an interesting state of limbo for a while.
I can now do more things with my blog, my costs are a bit lower, and everything related to this blog is now consolidated in one place.
I used TypePad for almost 4 years, but in the end I felt WordPress offered more possibilities and better usability. I had the most expensive TypePad package simply because I wanted the ability to edit some HTML, which was quite cumbersome. I could run as many blogs as I wanted, but didn’t need to. Their customer support is nice, but I’ve had a couple of issues where they couldn’t help me at all (I think I’ve had trackbacks disabled for over a year). But at least they replied: I can’t say the same for Apple’s .Mac support, which is even more expensive and which I also intend to replace.
Update: It seems the feed through FeedBurner and all of their feed flare is working again.
Welcome to the new look of Intelligent Artifice. I have not fully set everything up, but I already like it a lot better. Feel free to leave feedback in the comments.
And yes, cute little flowers have nothing to do with games. But I like the rest of the theme so much, I’m leaving it in for now.
… hopefully. I won’t begin to explain what I am trying to do - all I will say is that I have to start pushing big red buttons now that will likely make my site inaccessible. Please bear with me.
The RSS feed may break. In a few days, all should be as before, only better. Thank you for your patience.
Pardon my dust. I am going to change some stuff about the how and where of Intelligent Artifice over the next few days, which may result in this site becoming unreachable through the usual URL.
Update: Things are looking good so far. Because I have an optimisim bordering on delusion and am clearly a danger to myself and others, I am going to switch blogging platform, hosting company and domain registrar all at once. Because clearly that makes the most sense. But despite tempting the gods, I already have this site running with all its content and a spiffy new design in WordPress on a different server somewhere. The only thing that’s missing is the proper URL. The transfer should be through by the end of this week.
Yes, I am trying to make some minor tweaks to the look of this site. Not easy as TypePad has quite a clumsy interface and it doesn’t support Safari… Perhaps I will make the switch to WordPress sooner than planned.
Games news is slow. Or rather, my reading of games news is slow. I am sure some news item will catch my eye in a while. In the mean time, here is a little meta-post with some fun info I recently found out about Intelligent Artifice.
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I’ve added some doohickeys to the site and fiddled with the feeds. Let me know if anything has stopped working or is acting up.
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