Tag: Site News

The alternator and/or battery went out in my truck so I’m dealing with that shit instead of writing posts. You should receive your normal number of posts tomorrow.

It appears as though the site migration has gone much smoother than I expected. With the exception of my embedded YouTube links needing repair everything appears to be working correctly. I’ve had a couple people report that the RSS feed transferred over without any trouble, my Twitter integration seems to be working, and all the links are going where they’re supposed to. I’m sure there will be some problems in the coming weeks but overall I believe this is one of the less painful transfers I’ve dealt with.

WordPress has some very good tools available to those wanting to jump from one server to another. Of course if you notice any problems (besides the YouTube links not working, I’m already aware of that) either post a comment or send me an e-mail at blog[at]christopherburg[dot]com.

If you take a look around you’ll notice absolutely nothing appears to have changed but alas I’ve moved my blog for WordPress to my own personal server. The migration isn’t flawless as all of my embedded YouTube video links are in need of repair but otherwise I believe everything is here as it should be. If you notice any bugs let me know (blog[at]christopherburg[dot]com) and I’ll get to fixing them right away.

I’m sure the next question out of your mouth will be “Why the move?” Frankly I’ve been working on getting my own “cloud” setup. My e-mail has been hosted on my own server for a while now as are several other accounts. That means when you send an e-mail to the above address it goes straight to my server. Regardless to you this move means basically nothing but for me it means I now have complete control over my website, e-mail, and other online accounts. It’s likely that I may experience some downtime here and there being I’m hosting this on my own personal server and not several servers distributed around the country but so far my personal “cloud” experiment has lead to great up times and I don’t get page hits twenty-four hours a day so I have times that I can perform scheduled maintenance.

A couple of other things have changed. First you can now access this website via christopherburg.com, www.christopherburg.com, or the good old blog.christopherburg.com. The first two URLs may redirect to a new site someday but I will keep the blog subdomain pointing directly here for as long as I have control to do so (unless I change my mind).

I hope you’ll bear with me as I work out the bugs here. I’m not sure if the Twitter feed is going to work perfectly, I think the RSS feed link will need to be changed, and there are probably a few other issues that will crop up as the weeks pass.

OK you ungrateful bastards I’ve finally added an e-mail address that you can send stuff to. If you want to e-mail me about something go ahead and send your comments, concerns, or questions to blog [at] christopherburg [dot] com. If you can’t figure out how the e-mail address needs to be formatted chances are I don’t want you to e-mail me.

Yeah, I was out late last night instead of getting blog posts put together so the updates will be coming later this evening instead of at their normal time.

My buddy Dave is getting married this weekend and I’m the best man thus I’ll be occupied with things besides this site. See everybody Tuesday.

It’s Memorial Day and thus I’m taking a break from blogging today. Posts should resume on their normal schedule tomorrow.

It was a busy night and I didn’t have time to get any posts ready. My apologies.

I didn’t get my posts ready last night so you’ll have to wait until this evening for them to appear. I’d apologize but you get what you pay for.