DeepWave

Over the past couple of days, I’ve added a few new pages. These are mostly old articles and items which were never posted at the previous DeepWave server.

• A Short Romp in the US
• Negotiation in a Nutshell (Foreword)
• Review of Palm A.R.M. Screen Protector
• From the m505 to the T3

OK, so Singapore experienced more rainfall in 20 hours on 19 December 2006 than the entire month of December by average. To give you an idea of how much rain was involved, click on the radar map from Singapore’s National Environment Agency below (map saved at 1:50pm 19 December 2006).

That’s a lot of water. No doubt the kids were having a good time. Luckily this is the school holidays, otherwise, traffic would be even worse. Problem is, in the afternoon, with the rain and cool temperature, it sure feels like the perfect chance to sleep. Coffee does not help..

OK, I put up the Manic Depressive Server Message. You can see it here. Most people don’t understand it. They think it is something strange, even though the message right at the top says "File Not Found". But I like it, and it is my website so I’ll do what I like to the server.. I can’t claim credit for writing it of course, I think it came from penguinppc.org, but they have a picture of a woman as their 404 page now. Yeah, I’m sure a lot of guys will be hitting penguinppc.org/nosuchfile now..

So I finally imported Eileen’s Blog from Friendster into WordPress. WordPress’ import function was absolutely painless! Then she says to me "Hey, stop reading my blog, it’s private!" and I’m like "Duh, it’s on the Internet you know…" Sigh…

Well, in three days I have setup a blogging / CMS system on a new web host and moved over 120 pages of static content and almost 400 images, files and data. All I can say is, PHEW!

Certainly, this is not the end of the site activity. I still have various things I want to do, like changing the header graphic for the Connections theme, create a Links page of sorts, note down the various changes, hacks and modifications I had to do to get the site running and, of course, start adding more content.. I will also be trying to see if I can migrate Eileen’s Friendster blog to this one, so that will be a technical challenge as well.

And of course, hopefully I will be adding more and more content to DeepWave. It’s not about the technology, it’s about the content, right? Always has been..

Well, looks like the move is almost over.. I registered the DNS change with Network Solutions at about 18:00 GMT+8, and within 3 hours later, my own ISP here in Singapore already has the DNS record updated.. Now that is incredibly fast for a DNS update!

In any case, I’ve moved all the pages etc over, and now only have the Gallery left, and hopefully I’ll get that next. I also want to setup a link page of some kind to add links to other people..

I tried the PHP5, but there seems to be some problem with it. I’ve submitted a ticket to ASO (who have been fantastic so far), and we’ll see.. Anyway, PHP4 is working, so it is not like it is something very urgent..

Other that that, things are Looking Good ™.

OK, so, now I’ve finished moving probably everything except the Gallery.

1. the Credits section in the About,
2. all of the Articles and References,
3. more Light Reading
4. the entire Gallery
5. the Contact page
6. check out conversion to PHP5 (tried it, but will try again after DNS move is complete)
7. move the domain
8. search and replace the entire WordPress DB to make sure the URLs are properly updated after the domain move
9. re-setup the Frees mailing list
10. and make sure Eileen’s Blog is working fine. Oh yeah, and teach her HOW to blog using WordPress…

So, I am now going to move the DNS, and hopefully everything will work out fine..

Well, it is really late now, I’m tired, having been setting up, and moving pages from the old server to this new WordPress / MySQL CMS / Blogging system. So far, I’ve completed moving the About, Press and Events and some of the Light Reading. So, what’s next on the to-do list:

1. the Credits section in the About,
2. all of the Articles and References,
3. more Light Reading
4. the entire Gallery
5. the Contact page
6. check out conversion to PHP5
7. move the domain
8. search and replace the entire WordPress DB to make sure the URLs are properly updated after the domain move
9. re-setup the Frees mailing list
10. and make sure Eileen’s Blog is working fine. Oh yeah, and teach her HOW to blog using WordPress…

Phew!

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