RogiLife.Com

Today marks the eighth anniversary of this weblog, and some might say that the first ever post here set the tone as to how interesting most of the following thousands of posts would be. :)

I could write a book on the different adventures this place has had, from the first days of Blogger.com (“What is a Weblog?”) to GreyMatter to MovableType to pMachine to ExpressionEngine to WordPress, and there were probably yet more scripts in between.

There have been at least three different domain names, and I really cannot remember all of the different servers used, the ISP’s contracted, the different countries and locations that I have typed the posts in – or sometimes even the condition that I was in as I posted them. This blog has been with me through some interesting times, and to coin a phrase David Bowie once used when talking of his wilder days; “You don’t know half the story”.

Some of you reading this have been around right back from the very beginning, and thanks a bunch for that. Thanks also to all of the writers of all the thousands and thousands of comments over the years. Most of those comments have not been transferred between servers and scripts, but I still have them all archived.

Yet more thanks goes out to all of you who have taken the time to write the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of personal emails to me over the years. Whether sharing expertise, pointing out things I might be interested in, recipes, technical help, music, movie and book recommendations, or simply just shooting the breeze, every email was good to get and good to read.

It has been a real blast meeting so many interesting people via this place.

A hat tip fom me to all of you.

It’s hot, I’m taking a break, I’m in front of two computers, and one is a Mac.

Redesign time.

Done.

~ For future reference, long after this design is gone and forgotten, this redesign can be remembered as ‘the white type on the blue background redesign’.

Just for good measure, I have given micro.rogilife.com the same treatment, too.

Everything here at RogiLife.Com runs on my own server, as do a bunch of other sites of mine, except for just one: micro.rogilife.com.

‘Micro’, one year old today, which is what prompts this post, is hosted and essentially made possible by the excellent people over at tumblr.com.

I could attempt to write a book about the multitude of things that anyone could use tumblr.com for, but the book would never finished being written – the possibilities are absolutely endless.

If you have never heard of, or have never properly tried, the tumblr.com service then you’re missing out, really.

Great service, great reliability, and great people. Oh, and unbelievably, it’s all free.

So a happy 1st to ‘micro’, and thanks a bunch to all the staff at tumblr.com.

Another shamelessly self-referential post (more for me than for you – I’m kinda making notes here as I move stuff from server to server).

The Tumblog version of this site, Micro.RogiLife.Com, now finally (re)gains a place in the nav bar above, after a bit of fiddling about getting the A-record to work.

More Micro.RogiLife.Com related posts can be found here.

Done. What’s next?

Just a quick post to;

1. Confirm that I am still alive.

2. Check this blog is still alive after being moved from a shared server to my own.

3. That’s it.