The thing about backups is everyone knows they are critically important. It is like your lungs. You don’t sit around and think about your lungs everyday, all day. Yet, if you loose them, it is pretty much game over #
The quote, ironically, refers to Ma.gnolia, for whom I once created and maintained a wordpress plugin. Pure serendipity – I just searched Google for “the thing about backups” until I found a quote I liked…
But to get to the point, this website was first registered in 1999. Ten years ago. Since then, it’s hosted at various times a static site, a defunct mess, a Movable Type install, Wordpress, a Bloxsom install, an Habari blog, and then finally a return to Wordpress as I realised that it’s very obviously the least-bad blogging engine around at the moment. Even if it is written in PHP.
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