While setting up this new blog, I discovered that Blogger already had an "A Just Machine" blog (which is why my blogspot.com URL has dashes in it.) It's a Canadian political blog that has not updated since 2007, and for whatever reason it drops the spaces in the name. Not sure what Steely Dan has to do with being a Conservative in Canada, but it is what it is.
I doubt that anyone who reads either blog (assuming anyone reads either one, of course) will confuse the two, but just in case you came here looking for some Tory snark from the late Aughts, here's the blog you want: ajustmachine.blogspot.com.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Moving Day
I've decided to keep the blog going but move to Blogger from my generic web-hosting provider. Nothing against them, they have been great, but I can't justify even the small amount I am paying them when I am only using the service to host a Wordpress installation. When I'm ready to start building actual web apps they will be the first place I will go.
I had to do a lot of finagling with my registrar to try to get the old domain name to point to the new blog, and it will be at least an hour before I know whether everything is set up correctly. For now ajustmachine.com pulls up a Google 404 page. I guess the fact that Google is responding is a somewhat hopeful sign.
Update: www.ajustmachine.com now points to this blog, but the bare domain name does not. It may take a while longer for the A records to propagate (look at me, dropping hard-core DNS terminology.)
Update 2: looks like I missed the setting that auto-redirects the bare domain name to the www address. Now ajustmachine.com works, too. Hooray!
I had to do a lot of finagling with my registrar to try to get the old domain name to point to the new blog, and it will be at least an hour before I know whether everything is set up correctly. For now ajustmachine.com pulls up a Google 404 page. I guess the fact that Google is responding is a somewhat hopeful sign.
Update: www.ajustmachine.com now points to this blog, but the bare domain name does not. It may take a while longer for the A records to propagate (look at me, dropping hard-core DNS terminology.)
Update 2: looks like I missed the setting that auto-redirects the bare domain name to the www address. Now ajustmachine.com works, too. Hooray!
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tempus fugit
I got a call from my registrar yesterday saying that the domain for this site had just auto-renewed. I didn't realize it had been a year already.
When I registered this domain, I gave myself a year to do something with it, like blogging on a regular basis, or launching a small web app or two. As it stands it took me 6 months to get around to writing my first blog post, and since then I've made 8 posts including this one. As for web apps, I'm still working through the same Rails tutorial, so nothing much on that front either.
If I had gotten a single non-spam comment, or other indication that anyone was reading this blog, I might keep going. As it stands, I think I'm going to shut the whole thing down for now.
When I registered this domain, I gave myself a year to do something with it, like blogging on a regular basis, or launching a small web app or two. As it stands it took me 6 months to get around to writing my first blog post, and since then I've made 8 posts including this one. As for web apps, I'm still working through the same Rails tutorial, so nothing much on that front either.
If I had gotten a single non-spam comment, or other indication that anyone was reading this blog, I might keep going. As it stands, I think I'm going to shut the whole thing down for now.
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