Daily Archives: Sunday, 18 January 2004

New WordPress, New URI

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It’s done!
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.0.1. At the same time I’ve removed the ‘b2’ from the URI. The offi­cial URI for this journal is now http://zed1.com/journalized . Please update your links, book­marks, favour­ites, and blogrolls. Everything should get redir­ec­ted auto­mat­ic­ally but if you see any errors, please leave a comment.

Everything seems to be about 20 times faster at the moment. I’m not sure whether that’s because I am using WordPress’ mod_rewite-based cruft-free URIs (as opposed to PHP pars­ing of the URI) or because I’m run­ning off a new copied data­base (DB per­form­ance seemed to be a big factor previously).

It Feels Good To Be 2

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After read­ing of Matt’s suc­cess at get­ting to be the #3 Matt in the world, I thought I’d bet­ter check my ranking.

I’d not checked for a while (and it was Matt who made me check in the first place); when I first checked I gave up look­ing after page 20 of Google’s search res­ults mean­ing I wasn’t in the top 200. A while ago I’d made it to num­ber 14.

Today I am the num­ber two ‘mike’ in all the world accord­ing to Google (that is the whole world isn’t it?). Num­ber 2 out of about 20 mil­lion! Pretty impressive.

And just for fun when I upgrade to WordPress 1.0.1 I’ll be chan­ging my URL! Only slightly, but it should be enough to com­pletely break my Google standing!

Let’s hope the very com­pre­hens­ive redir­ect script at the old loc­a­tion will help.

Update: I’m also num­ber 1 ‘mike’ on MSN (out of 12 million)