I setup Ron’s blog at http://www.intelron.com and of course with the recent WordPress version 2.7.

My WordPress version was 2.0.3 and there is no way to upgrade from that to 2.7… so I had to manually insert data into the new table formats from the existing data. Not that I’ve done this before. This blog has gone through several transitions since 2003. First it was a simple blog I made, then tried Mambo, then Blog:CMS, Nucleus:CMS… I can’t even remember anymore. This website is more of my playground to try and install CMSs rather than actual blog writing. Finally settled with the best, WordPress.

Posts and comments are all accounted for. I even fixed indexing. I gave up with categories. The way Taxonomy is now setup is a wee bit different from just plain old categories. Besides, I think it is better to restructure and create new tags and such. The old one was messy and tangled up.

Now to tag several hundred posts… time to reminisce the past

Some years ago (2003 to be exact), I got caught up in the blogging craze. I wrote about anything mostly about school, my todo list, anything new I discovered.

My personal reason for doing this was to improve my English writing skills. Think that is good enough reason? Hah! Well maybe because I wanted to be cool and my other Computer Science classmates in college were doing it as well so why not do it too. We all kept tabs with each other’s blogs and wrote comments, only to talk about it face to face the next day at school. Haha. Back then, I was also interested in learning PHP and tinkering with free webapps from sourceforge.net and needed somewhere public to dump them all in. I saw myself as an eccentric geek who wanted to suck in all the information the computing world can offer.

I had loads of free time in between sleepless nights devoted to perfecting school projects. I had a laptop that I was always lugging behind my back that it seemed to be a part of me. Like a hunchback. I was connected to the internet 24/7 at home and at school. I had a pool of academic people, all who were better than me, who kept me inspired to learn more.

That was then.

So now what? Hmm… at least I got the internet hooked up. That’s a good start.