Paul Nicholls

Fed up of my crumbling CMS, and too busy (ok.. lazy…) to rebuild I figured I’d let someone else do the hard work, and migrate to blogger. Apart from a painful few hours trying to get the style to look vaguely like my main site the transition was fairly easy, just a bit of copying and pasting. I think I’ve got everything worthwhile from the old blog, if not, its not lost - just forgotten.

You might notice the blog isn’t hosted on my regular server, saps2.mine.nu, thats because I’m beginning to move all my “stuff” from saps2 (which is my home server, low bandwidth and generally slow and ugly) to saph.co.uk, which is a shiney high bandwidth host I pay for. In the short term the site will jump between the two hosts, but eventually saps2 should end up purely for dev work and odds and ends.

I’m hoping this move to blogger might stimulate me to blog more - and about more interesting things, as site updates will remain on the “home” page, and the “blog” has been seperated as a different entity.

Hah, I said I wasn’t going to talk about site updates, but I think I’ll just mention some of the exciting stuff we’re working on with iTunes2MSN at the moment (yes… “we”! There is now a team!) On the one hand I’ve got automated uploads sorted, so now your images can be popped straight onto the internet (hosted on this server) with no fuss, ready to use on blogs, forums, etc. On the other side, Ben’s making major breakthroughs with Windows Media Player. The current plan is for a complete rebuild (which will be under a new name, since iTunes2MSN isn’t really appropriate anymore..) due out in “The Summer”.

“The Summer” … I think I need to start making a list of things I’ve said I’ll do over The Summer. I keep putting everything non-essential off until then, “Oh there’ll be plenty of the time in the summer, what with not being at school any more…”. I seem to be forgetting when doing this that I’m supposed to be working over the summer (thrice, with 3 different jobs).. and having a holiday .. and visiting all sorts of places, and rebuilding my CMS, and migrating to the hi-bandwidth server, and working in the garden, and fitting central locking to the car, and rebuilding iTunes2MSN, and having a social life, not to mention everything else I’ve already forgotten.