Soundproof - 80s video on tv in the eighties Vancouver style.

Now here’s nostalgia. I remember watching a lot of music video on Soundproof. Punk, alternative, new wave, and all kinds of goofing around. Some great fun.

A UBC Archives pdf of a UBYSSEY newspaper story on Soundproof from 1984. A year and a half into their show.

I just noticed that Firefox 3.0 no longer has the “Links” tab in the “Page Info” window. The “Links” tab shows all the outgoing links of any web page. Found French blogger Florian Quèze who has kindly posted, in English, a link to his Links and Forms extension/addon. It’s at the bottom of the page. The Links and Forms extension restores the Links tab in Firefox 3 Page Info window to how it was in Firefox 2. - thanks Florian!

Scot Hacker’s Foobar Blog » Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration

I once ran giantkicks.com on Moveable Type. I thought it was utterly unintuitive, too complicated and kind of ugly in the back-end. I gave it a couple months and threw my hands up in exasperation. Installed cafepress/b2 and then wordpress when cafepress and b2 withered away.

Apparently China Digital Times has migrated some 16,000 Moveable Type post to Wordpress. They’ve since seen posting times reduced from 15 minutes to a few seconds, with a huge increase in server perforance due to lower loads.

I have unfortunately been recommending Joomla as a content management system to friends with businesses and online communities.  Joomla is a lot less intuitive than Moveable Type. i don’t know about server loads, but having read Scot’s article. I will stand by Wordpress and recommend it instead.

- original link via Holy Shmoly

I’ve restored all the posts from 2003-2007. I currently have no access to posts from 2000 to 2003..but some day I will.

My intention was merely to restore the site. I don’t know yet if I will start posting again.

The problem I resolved in order to restore the site was that I had all the posts and comments from giantkicks.com saved in a sql file from when I was hosted on a different server/host, 1and1.com. The site files were all pointing to the old URL and a different database. Using phpMyAdmin I exported a sql file of my new install. With a copy of my old sql file open in notepad++, I used replace, found under “search”, or by pressing Ctrl+H, to update all the URLs, the database name to “wp_” from the old name ‘wp1_”and copied over the new “Data contents of table `wp_users`”.

It would have been nice if there was a simpler way to do it, but I couldn’t find one.

By the way I am now using hostgator. Their support has been excelent, as has been the stability and speed of their servers. I recommend them without reservation..and if you sign up using my link I get a referal bonus.

+ Drew this on the beach a few weeks ago. Click it for a bigger version.