DanLynch.org

I’ve finally done it! I promised a change would come and while it’s taken longer than I’d hoped, I have now migrated this whole site to WordPress. It’s still a...

I’ve finally done it! I promised a change would come and while it’s taken longer than I’d hoped, I have now migrated this whole site to WordPress. It’s still a bit rough around the edges and could use aesthetic touches but that will come with time. Now that it’s all WP based I hope to consolidate my content into one stream and finally use the site more regularly.

I think my main problem (amongst many) over the years has been fragmentation, or to put it another way, spreading myself too thin. Originally I set up different websites to post music, Linux reviews, personal articles and many other things. Each new idea I came up with had to have it’s own dedicated site. I thought this would make it easier for people to concentrate on the parts of my output they were interested in. In reality though all that happened was I ended up with a lot of sites that were hardly ever updated. It seems a bit silly looking back but I swear the plan made sense at the time.

Now though I hope to post live music videos, photos and articles about everything from Linux to Liverpool FC all in this one place. I want to make this a proper hub for all my online activity. I’m still mad busy and can’t promise the output will be prolific, but I’ll certainly do my best. Onwards and upwards!

Stay tuned, and thanks for your patience

Dan

Ahoy hoy! As Mr Burns and my good friend Mr Bradley Kuhn would say. By all accounts it was the preferred greeting of telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell but has now...

Ahoy hoy! As Mr Burns and my good friend Mr Bradley Kuhn would say. By all accounts it was the preferred greeting of telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell but has now been supplanted by the simpler “hello”, or perhaps “wasssup?” if you remember those Budweiser ads from the 90′s. It’s been a little while since my last update but thankfully not the month long absence of last time. Life has continued apace and there’s much to tell. I’ll pick out the highlights from the last fortnight and share them with you now. I’ll also look ahead to exciting events due in the week or two. So let’s do this…

March has given way to April and spring should be on the way. You wouldn’t know it from the recent weather though. Last week it was over 20 degrees Celsius and now we’re back near zero. Snow in some parts of the UK and ice on the roads. I knew I shouldn’t have put my shorts on last week, it was only tempting fate. Anyway, I’m sure Al Gore has some thoughts on this. If he’s not too busy jetting around the world warning people about their carbon footprints. The little tinker. But I digress. I last reported back in mid-March and since then I’ve posted about my planned changes to this very site. Those are still ongoing but should be completed in the next week. I’m migrating a lot of stuff from Drupal to WordPress. Not because I have anything against Drupal of course, it just seems silly to use both on one site when I don’t need to. I’ve transferred most of the content and got the new site structure sorted. I just need to find (or knock together) a decent theme and then I’ll switch them over. I don’t want to break the RSS feeds or current URL structure if possible so it’s a delicate process. Stay tuned. Continue reading →

That’s right, Otis Redding famously sang the phrase and I’m gonna say it too. A change is gonna come. Ok, he was talking about segregation and civil rights in America...

That’s right, Otis Redding famously sang the phrase and I’m gonna say it too. A change is gonna come. Ok, he was talking about segregation and civil rights in America and I’m talking about changing my website, but it’s still a change nonetheless.

I’ve been pondering how best to utilise DanLynch.org and get the most out of it for a while. I want to see a lot more activity here and I don’t want the blog to be so separate from everything else. The reason for this separation is technical. The blog runs on WordPress but the rest of my site is built with Drupal. They’re both lovely Open Source PHP systems but it struck me recently I should really just use WordPress for the whole thing. All I’m doing in Drupal now is making some static pages around this blog anyway. WordPress can do that. So as we speak I’ve copied this blog onto some development web space and I’m reworking that version. Kicking the tires, checking the oil, and other such motoring metaphors. Continue reading →