It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, Northern Virginia (the part that votes Blue and used to have AOL Headquarters and stuff)...there is a Frankenstein...and we have created it. Alex and I have been talking about getting some kind of combined blog up for a not so insignificant amount of time now, and so I finally bit the bullet Wizard (the struck word conjures up far too many images violence, so by eliminating the word we can do our part to eliminate violence. right, Abe Pollin?) and registered the domain and set up the host, along with some hosted Exchange and BES so Alex and I could get some decent push email* and calendaring and stuff on our BlackBerry devices (shouldn't I just say BlackBerries?). Only, the hosting company, which I will not name since they were nice enough to refund my setup fees and credit me a month or two of service, did not properly set up the various services. Really, I should send them a bill for the six hours of my life I can never get back. Remember, my employer charges by the hour, so I know exactly how much little my time is worth.
Anyway, when I went to transfer posts from my old Blogger account, WordPress freaked out. Again. Another call, and a brush-off. Finally, another hour later I get to a call center guy who lets me talk long enough to explain what I did and that I know it's an Apache issue and that I'm not Tom Cruise Batshit Crazy(tm), and 5 minutes later
a) we're up, b
) Alex can import his stuff,
c) I'm drinking a nice ice cold Diet Coke, the official drink of this blog and Breakfast of Champions(tm), and
d) I can write this for you, one of the maybe 4 loyal readers I had over at Blogger, if Google Analytics is to be believed.Anyway, welcome. This should get prettier soon, and maybe even have something you find bizzare or interesting enough to pass on to someone who can generate some real traffic.
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