the roarty blog
Somethings you learn over and over again without really getting them to stick – something stops them from being in short-term memory and into long-term memory….
My latest short-term to long-term transfer failure is:
When you register for a free trial of something and they ask you for a credit-card they will bill you without notice for something you still thought was free.
And so I am now the proud owner of a TypePad blog. 
Let me be clear on this: I am not annoyed with TypePad. I gave them my details and they definitely told me when my free trial would be up. Ho hum. But, it does put me in a peculiar position. I had a blog – called the roarty blog – which evolved from being a website about my wedding. This served me well – it runs .NET, Sql Server, and on top of those Community Server.
However, I never quite got round to tidying up the Community Server install so that it only hosted my blog. That left me with a long Url, which could be hacked back and probably showed too much of the underlying surface of the application. However, it worked, and it worked well until I tried to upgrade it this week!
So, being all clever and smart, I sought out a cheaper hosting deal and came up with the cleverly titled The Roarty Wiki. However, not being so smart or clever, I chose the Url – http://www.theroartyblog.com/.
If truth be told, I planned to move my current content – on http://www.mcateer-roarty.info/ onto the new Url and decomission or downgrade the hosting package on mcateer-roarty. However, whilst investigating all the alternative options – using TypePad, for example, and wanting to be able to post using BlogJet or something similar – I signed up for TypePad…… and I installed ScrewTurn Wiki to see if I could get anything out of it.
And now I have three websites and no content!
So, in true Getting Things Done style, the next Action on the Websites Project has to be: Retrieve original content from mcateer-roarty. Once I’ve got that, I can decide what happens next!
Have a good weekend,
Ciaran
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