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New domains!

GeneralSystems Administration

Over the next two months or so I plan to move this blog over to a dedicated server, not because wordpress.com is bad, but because wordpress.org just offers a lot in terms of themes and widgets and things to play with (and because I want the server anyway for various programming projects, and it may pull duty hosting On Target and Wallpaper and herself’s book site as well).

Step one in this process was to install wordpress.org on a local LAMP stack on my laptop and that’s done and I’m playing about with it and maybe I’ll write something up on that later, I’m planning on writing about the entire process of switching from wordpress.com to wordpress.org anyway.

Step two was registering domain names. It’s step two because wordpress will allow you to map a domain name to an existing blog, and that eases the handover slightly.… Read the rest

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Outed…

Science Fiction

…as a Neal Asher fan.

Well, not the worst thing in the world (though it wasn’t Don Corleone’s pizza shop, that goombah wouldn’t know good pizza if you threw it at his sister), he writes good stuff. By the way, if you’ve not read his stuff yet, don’t start with Hilldiggers like I did since it’s the tail end of the chronology of most of his work, start with Prador Moon and work onwards:

  • Prador Moon
  • The Shadow of the Scorpion
  • Gridlinked
  • The Line of Polity
  • Brass Man
  • Polity Agent
  • Line War
  • The Skinner
  • The Voyage of the Sable Keech
  • Orbus
  • Hilldiggers
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