And so I'm back, from outer space
26 01 09 - 20:55 Welcome to the all new, fresh and shiny wildchildBLOG. I'd like to claim this was entirely intentional, and that I spontaneously decided to wipe everything and start again - the best thing about the past is that it's already gone, and all that jazz. But that's not quite the whole truth. It starts with me being a bit lax about checking my emails. Much as I hate to admit it, most of my communication with friends passes through Facebook these days, while my regular email accounts groan under the strain of assorted spam. Somewhere in the middle of all the phishing attempts and Viagra adverts I missed the email from my hosts requesting that I update my credit card details because they were about to charge me for another couple of years. I went away for a couple of weeks over Christmas and came back to find that they'd suspended my account. Oops.A few messages and some new card details brought the account back to life, but wiped clean. I've got local copies of all the static/hardcoded pages, but I'd never bothered backing up the old blog files. There's probably a lesson in there somewhere.
As it is, I'm treating it as a positive thing - there was a lot of static content that needed purging, and I'd been toying with changing my blogging software anyway. I'm now running on Pivot, which (hopefully) gives me php for a bit more power, without throwing me into MySQL databases and the associated gubbins.
Enjoy
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