At last! A blog of my own!

So, about three months ago I decided to implode the blogosphere a bit; instead of using blogspot I’d put a blog on my own site.

Famous last words.

Never mind that my own website, morganica.com, hadn’t really been updated in two years (hey–when you do this stuff for a living the one thing you never have time for is your own site, right?)

Never mind that the reason I hadn’t done more was that there was something screwy with my host configuration and I’d never really had time to fix it. I’d swapped hosts a couple of years ago after a monumental screwup by my previous webhost that trashed several months’ worth of work..but the files migrated with one of those snafus that takes one second to create and 18 hours to find and correct. I’d finally concluded that it would be faster to redesign the whole site. (It was)

Never mind that using someone ELSE’s blog is simple, quick, and easy.

Nope. I had to have my own. So in (another) impulse buy, I acquired a copy of Movable Type, dusted off my ftp client and some rather rusty PHP skills, and set to work. Four hours later, I discovered the little pitch on the SixApart site that offers to install the software on your server and set up your first blog, make sure everything’s running well, and get you going…for $99.

Sold.

And there began one of the longer-running sagas of my web career. If there was a way to misconfigure the site, it happened. I got to know Sarah, my MovableType installer, far better than either of us planned. I got to know ValueWeb, my new host, much better, too, as we traveled through server moves, uninstalls and reinstalls, redirections, wierd propagation errors, and some incredibly funky error messages.

It’s enough to make me retire my techie stripes (those that haven’t rusted, anyway). After a 1:00 AM session this morning, ValueWeb finally found the problem, reset a setting or three, and I was in business.

Now to start uploading old posts and adding new. I mostly blog for the helluvit, not because I want anyone to read it, but in true web marketeer fashion I can’t stand the idea of not having a critical mass of content on a new site.

So…please bear with me while I upload a bunch of old junk. I promise to be more discriminating as the new site settles in.

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