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A Preface to 2010

Chris Gray — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:50:08 +0000

I thought I’d better get this out of the way as a sort of preface, before my travel posts.

As the dates reveal, I’ve been typically absent from blogging^I in the last two months, although now I’ve finally freed myself up to get back to relative normality. All three people who read this blog can now sleep easy.

Between writing I’m watching the almost endless pastoral farmland of country Australia out my window, flying the friendly skies of AirAsia to KL.^II Even traveling regularly you still forget just how enormous our country is, and I’m surprised just how much we utilise. I was waiting for the deserts to emerge, but only managed to see enormous river systems bone-dry from our seemingly everlasting drought. It was great to see water in these river systems in Northern Queensland, hopefully it will make a difference.

My main excuse of absense is that I’ve been frantically preparing my house for sale, which is all but on the market. Hopefully it won’t stay that way too long.

When I haven’t been working or working on the house, I’ve been slowly moving into my apartment, which I’ve had to leave behind as a veritable warehouse of boxes and old furniture. More on that when I’m home again.

And for that matter, most other things.
Nobody rob my apartment while I’m gone, okay.

Back, kinda

Chris Gray — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:25:07 +0000

It seems I was half-way through renovating this site last year, so everything is half-working again, but I guess that’s enough of an incentive to completely change it once I’m all caught up with everything else.

Thanks to capital G I managed to scrape back all of my blog posts that weren’t in my backup^I and repost them, albeit without any formatting, links, and worst of all devoid of all the comments left in 2009.

Needless to say I’m rolling my own backups now.

Other private blogs I host for friends and family weren’t as lucky

The trouble with moving servers…

Chris Gray — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:17:04 +0000

.. is like going on a holiday; on arrival you remember something vital you’ve left behind.

I’ve conglomerated my old domains to redirect here,^I which hopefully should make it simpler. No idea what effect it’ll have on Google results, although I’m sure to learn in the coming weeks.^II I couldn’t do a complete redirection because I’m using better permalinks now, and would have had to do more than 100 individual changes.

If you were pointing to one of the old domain names, please update your links because the old domains won’t be around forever. At least not pointing to me, in any case.

Namely ccg.id.au and chrisgray.name, which I’ve still got more than a year paid for.
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