my own fault for using the same password multiple places, I suppose. But spending a couple hours recovering accounts and changing passwords isn’t my idea of fun.
Building jonathan-peterson.com
I registered the way.nu domain back in 1998. .com domains ran $70/year, and the little polynesian island of Niue setup a domain name registrar at the low, low price of $25/year.
Eventually, I stuck in some hand-coded html as a placeholder, eventually put together a handful of cobbled together html, perl scripts and server side includes to build a very early blog, later hooked it up to blogger, eventually swapping that for movable type and later still WordPress (and now mostly Facebook to be honest). Along the way, I had two major server crashes that lost all my content. I rebuilt after the first, but never bothered doing the work to do it a second time. I still have a CD-ROM with a backup will require the installation of some crusty old version of MySQL for recovery. It would be quicker to write a wayback machine to WordPress importer. And to be honest, it was a bit liberating to turn my back on a lot of self-indulgent and/or dated stuff that I’d written (even if I have hunted through google’s webmaster tools to selectively restore some of the best bits).
The last time way.nu came up for renewal, I signed up – even thought they’d gone complete bastard in keeping their rates at 20 EU a year and requiring a minimum of 2 years to renew while .com domains dropped to a only a few dollars. I’ve pretty well killed all use the of my old way.nu email addresses since and when the renewal came up this year (now 30 EU with 2 year minimum!) I decided it was time to walk away. I just put in the 301 permanent redirects for way.nu to jonathan-peterson.com and it will surely be a domain squatters by next week.
Not sure how I feel about all that – mostly too busy working to think about it all that much. As long as archive.org is hanging onto a copy of everything, its easy to not think about.
Feb 242010
This is pretty much what I wanted to do with the home page of Jonathan-Peterson.com but haven’t made the time.
I did it with flavors.me inside 30 minutes. awesome. google or wordpress should snap this up instantly.
http://flavors.me/jonathanpeterson
I don’t think I’m ever going to go through the hurdles of restoring the DB archive I have of the old way.nu wordpress database and pulling onto this host. But I just setup google webmaster tools and it makes it pretty trivial to find 404s that are showing up for people who are linking to my old archive. Jumping over to archive.org and grabbing the broken link stuff is similarly easy. So I created a new way.nu archive category and installed the category visibility wordpress plugin so posts won’t be appearing on the front of jonathan-peterson.com.
Now I can just do the recreate, post two step to get everything with high linkage. Will also need to setup a .htaccess with mod-rewrites so the old broken links are in the right place. to do it right?
Nov 172009
messed with template, created some links, dug up old bio, did some information architecture with various content sources, found my wordpress.com blog to get my api key so comments can be despammed. Also setup monkey pirate tiddlywiki (I didn’t name it, but man it’s gotten better/faster/stronger since I first played with the original tiddlywiki (can it be?) 5 years ago) to start notes for the great american novel Karl says I’m destined to write. More importantly, helped with math homework.
this copy is ugly. template requires serious typographic help (better now)
ok, so the lifestream plug-ins are working. Now to rebuild the page design to front and center that.
I can haz spare timez?
