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MOVING TO WORDPRESS.COM
Read more: MOVING TO WORDPRESS.COMStarting today, I’m moving my posts to a site hosted at WordPress.com. The site is named “b.smat.us” which allows old links to still retrieve old contents. However, anyone typing in the regular URL, or…
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Back on-line
Read more: Back on-lineI’ve been trying to simplify my on-line life. Part of this was to reduce costs and simplify things by merging separate hosting sites. My smat.us account expired in early September. It took till now…
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The Strike
Read more: The StrikeI took the site offline yesterday in solidarity with the Electronic Frontiers Foundation and other organizations to protest impending US congressional action on “copyright protection” bills. As a published author I’m happy to have…
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A Mini-Migration
Read more: A Mini-MigrationGoDaddy did something weird to their hosting packages a while back. When I tried to upgrade my Cryptosmith blog to the new package, it took them WEEKS to do the migration. So this time…
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Thoughts on a District Website
Read more: Thoughts on a District WebsiteI’m the chairman of the local scouting district, and our new district executive has taken the lead on moving our web site to a content management system. The council is using Dot Net Nuke…
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