This is just a status update really. I had this site on a cheap hosting account that was paid yearly, but the time was up at the end of August. I backed everything up and transferred the domain to Hostgator.
I’ve learned a lot about WordPress over the last few years, most by trial & error. I went with Hostgator for my other sites because it had cPanel, which seemed to be the dashboard most compatible with everything I’m doing online.
I didn’t really know what all I had to do to set everything back up. All the advancements and automation made me a little lazy. It’s been awhile since I had to setup a database or edit config files. That probably sounds Greek to most people coming online nowadays.
With the constant upgrades and automated installation sites and software, most take this stuff for granted. Well, I put it off for a few weeks and once I decided to reinstall, it turned out to be a lot more work than I planned.
I had a background in electronics and computer repair before coming online, and probably spent more time with them unplugged than actually powered up, but I found pretty much anything I wanted to learn by manuals and help files in the early 80’s. So once I got online, I was just like a sponge, absorbing everything I could.
All that research paid off today.
Now that it’s in a more permanent location, I plan on spending a lot more time on adding some quality stuff, regularly.
Thanks for your time.
B. Stone
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It’s been awhile since I posted anything here.
Normally I could blame it on some big affiliate product launch that I signed up to promote. I could have been throwing up Squidoo lens and Hubpages, submitting articles, building links, bookmarking, getting traffic and making some commissions.
Instead I was hospitalized for the last two weeks. It must have been something I ate that got stuck on the way out. By the time I really started feeling bad, it had held up traffic a bit, ruptured part of my intestines, and I got septic.
They had to pump me full of antibiotics and clean me out from both ends at the same time. The worst part was the NG tube they had to stick in my nose to get to my stomach and pump out any food or acid left. Of course they had to do something similar at the other end.
They starved me for several days and I started feeling kinda crazy, like in those old cartoons where the two guys stranded on a little island start looking at each other and see a big turkey or ham. Then when I could start eating again, everything tasted so good, and I got a lot of strange cravings like I was pregnant.
Well, anyways, time to get back to work. I’ll probably put up a few more posts before the end of the year. I need to go ahead and edit the header too. I see they finally finished the beta testing of WordPress 2.7. Guess I’ll have to upgrade as well. It has some drastic changes from 2.65 and some really cool new features.
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