…as I remodel the blog.
Housekeeping
Blog Issues
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It’s been months since I’ve had time to blog (these days, work and family leave no time for family history). And I am very much behind in responding to emails. A couple of weeks ago, I visited this blog for…
Blog Break
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Slow blogging these days as real life intervenes. I’m still checking email, but response may be a bit slower than usual. Back to (semi-)regular blogging in a few weeks, I hope. In the meanwhile, I recommend Lumbering Songs from the…
When the techno-clueless blog…
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…they have email problems. Well, that would be me. Techno-clueless, I mean. I have an email glitch that I should probably attend to before going up to Ottawa for Christmas. Basically, I cannot get into the email account that is…
Site Changes
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After struggling for too long with the lack of support for Movable Type blogs, I’ve finally moved to WordPress. I expect I’ll be playing around with design and appearance, and it will no doubt take me a while to figure…
Summer Blogging Break
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It’s time for my annual visit to Shaw’s of Perth: Advertisement for Shaw’s, Perth Courier, 10 August 1928. I’m sorry to have missed “the biggest, broadest, and most commanding sale ever held in Perth;” and I doubt they’re still offering…
Back up Your Online Genealogy Data!
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Or: do as I say, and not as I did. What I did was to fail to back up my site. My old (private and password-protected) family history website, that is. Oh, I still have the information (in gedcoms, files,…
Re: “Register for a User Account”
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I currently have a password-protect on the family tree/genealogical database section of this site. This user/password thing is temporary. Basically, I’ve recently transferred my family tree database from a private, password-protected site (where I didn’t worry too much about displaying…
Integrating TNG with Movable Type?
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This blog runs on Movable Type (currently using version 4.32, and with no immediate plans to upgrade to 5). The (soon-to-be-launched) genealogy database uses TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding, version 7.1.3). Seriously powerful MySQL database-based system for sending…