Life is like photography
we use the negatives to develop
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I spent the last few hours copying everything from the old server to my new virtual machine. And a few minutes ago, I updated the DNS entry for the helvensteijn.com domain. It’ll take some time for the change to propagate across the internet, but soon, everybody should have this web site served by my new … Read more
Just two days ago, I received my new iMac. And this night, my new virtual machine went online. It will be running this web site in the near not-too-distant future. Right now, this site sits quite comfortably on a shared hosting account. However, shared hosting has its limits, and with a virtual machine (a so-called … Read more
Last Monday, WordPress 2.6 was released. Because I grew more and more unhappy with my WordPress installation hanging together by plugins and hacks, I saw this release as a good moment to do a completely clean install. I made a database dump and a WordPress export, dropped all tables in the database and removed all … Read more
As of today, this web site runs at a new hosting provider: Host Delight, a company of Dolf Schimmel, who is a friend of mine. Only one problem occured with the transition: all the links on the Links page are gone. Somehow they didn’t survive the WordPress export/import process. I’ll try to recover those from … Read more