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by Laurent Bossavit.
Original Post: Head of the Kyu
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Feed Description: You're in a maze of twisty little decisions, all alike. You're in a maze of twisty little decisions, all different.
At any rate, it was, for the past few months - other things took priority then the "three week rule" intervened (they say it takes 21 days to form a habit, or lose one in this case). Then I decided that a long pause in writing was OK, a normal pattern of renewal.
Then a few weeks ago, I had an idea that I wanted to write down. When I tried to log into the blogging tool, it no longer knew me. "Invalid login," it said, cold as a judge. What ? I haven't been away that long ! You're a computer, you're not supposed to forget people !
It seems that my hosting provider upgraded the server's OS, or something of the sort, and that change was incompatible with something in my previous blog engine. I'm not going into the details - I had to figure out exactly what was wrong, or I couldn't have gone on thinking of myself as a techie. But they are quite uninteresting and sooner forgotten.
I made a note to install a new blogging tool when I had time, and today was the day. I shopped around for a new blogging tool, my main requirements being that it could import my old entries (renewal yes, scorched earth no) and not require me to use MySQL. (I prefer to deal with a single set of problems, whenever possible.)
I settled on a new name for the blog. It's a somewhat obscure multiple pun involving two distinct cultures - I find it rather fitting, we'll see how it gets across.
Now to think of something interesting to write. See you soon.
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