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12Dec/081

Save the net!

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13Oct/080

My new blog: Sustain Myself

I have launched my new blog SustainMyself.com . The blog is about living in the city in volatile environment and doing all I can to live a sustainable lifestyle without giving up on all my creature comforts.

8Oct/080

Christianbiggins.com moved to Wordpress platform

I have been toying with the idea of moving to a self hosted wordpress blog for quite some time and I finally bit the bullet and did it. The main driving force behind this decision was;

  1. More control. I can edit code, add plugins, modify anything I want,
  2. Owned posts. With Google owning everything posted to Blogger, I preferred that my posts remained mine, on my servers. Blogger didn't even provide an export service to make it easier to remove your blog.
  3. Pages. I can post on pages about my work and my projects without needing to follow a blog-style 'post'. This means I can have non blog content.
  4. Hosting on my server means that I can integrate with other sites and services that I own or host.
  5. Still works with Windows Live Writer. This was a must. Live Writer is used for all my posts.
  6. Solid codebase. Wordpress is used extensively throughout the web with a huge community base. There are heaps of available plugins, widgets, themes, tutorials etc and as its PHP based, I can tinker myself.

So, as Wordpress provided an import script from Blogger, it was a no-brainer. Of course the import failed a few times and I got a fair few duplicate comments, its all here now.

So, the site is now Wordpress with the BloggingPro theme and a few other plugins used also.  It is very much still a work in progress as I move over all the changes I made on Blogger. I am also going to add more content to the pages and other stuff too. Keep watching this space.