Luckily there is plenty coming up for me to post about. Now I just need to make notes to ensure I remember to post about them, like the Christmas post that I still haven’t compiled yet.

Lets see we have a part to go to in early February, Valentine’s Day, Jamie and a friend’s birthday on the same day, soon after my birthday, a hockey game, and the start of the MLS season which we have season tickets for!

On the birthday subject, Jamie and our friend Missy having the same birth date is pretty funny, no one actually ever realized it until a few days ago so it should be fun come that weekend celebrating both.

So yeah, here’s just a little reminder for me what to post about and a hint for what you will be reading next, enjoy.

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So why did I put it towards the bottom of the list for a rainy day? Not sure, guess I thought it would take hours of work.

I decided to to add mobile capabilities because sadly I am on my BlackBerry as much as my computer, if not more. So now you all have even less of an excuse to read this blog, you can do so anywhere you get a signal.

Just go to the blog on your cell phone as you would normally, but this time it will detect you’re on a mobile browser and arrange the blog into a readable format that’s easy on the eyes and easy to navigate. Nothing fancy needs to be done. Try it out, maybe you’ll find it more convenient and stop by more often.

If you have a WordPress blog and are interested in this plugin, you can check it out here. I chose to use WordPress Mobile Edition. You can’t customize the theme too much and there isn’t many options, but it works really well with pictures and links. Another one is WordPress Mobile Pack, which you can customize the crap out of it (colors, sidebars, etc), but it didn’t display links correctly so I scrapped that one.

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Jamie has a nice story to tell of something that happened right before vacation, but we’ll see if she finally makes her first post or not. If she does, I’ll insert it right after this post so keep looking for it!

Stay tuned.

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I have so much to post about, so here is the short version.

Internet was $14 a day at the resort, so I didn’t pay for it so I couldn’t blog! Sorry but I cannot justify such a needed technology being that price per day. I know people that pay that much per month.

I’ll have everything ready to go tomorrow, backing up pictures and unpacking now. Getting tired, flight delayed 6 hours so I’m not the happiest camper right now.

Chao for now.

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I have enjoyed blogging very much over the past year. It is something I look forward to after each event we go to or fun thing we do. Jamie laughs at me when I run upstairs to get the camera, or get bumbed out if I forget it. I like the idea of having a journal of what we do to reference in the future, and having it online to be accessible anywhere and share with friends is even better.

So hooray for one year, can’t wait for the next. Thanks to all the readers and supporters out there.

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100 Posts Milestone

We’ve made it to the first milestone…100 posts!! I can’t believe it took me almost a year, but hey, I’m here now!

I love how my spam comments are ten times greater than my actual comments, but I’m sure thats normal.

Thanks to all the constant readers out there. Maybe during the next 100 Jamie might actually post at least one of them!

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So…how do you like it?

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So here’s the change:

http://www.josephhannigan.com/blog2

is now

http://www.joeandjamie.com/blog

Update your links – www.joeandjamie.com

This is something that always has bugged me since day one. I don’t know what took me so long to do this, would have been much faster if I had done it when I had three posts and a small database.

Over the next week you may experience different looks of the blog. I will be testing some new themes. Quite frankly I have grown board with this one. I did put a lot of work into making it what it is though, I remember all the long nights tweaking the page code.

Since this was a bit of a daunting task (more me worrying about screwing it up more than anything), I want to share the articles I found that were very helpful.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress -This article is hands down the most important. It is narrowed down to each specific type of move you could be doing. Whether you are changing subdirectories or servers, this is the document for you.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL – This article goes deeper with the database changes to be made. I found it just as easy to backup the database, edit it in a good text editor (not notepad) to update the links, then restore it.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
The trickiest part was figuring out how not to lose the old links. I am sure most will drop from the search engines, but I do have a handful of direct links which I didn’t want to lose. I found documents on .htaccess redirect rules which did the trick. The following site from Apache has all the mod aliases you can use. The RedirectMatch worked best for me.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html

This is the code that I have in my old blog’s folder .htaccess file.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog2/(.*)$ http://www.joeandjamie.com/blog/$1

This keeps everything after www.joeandjamie.com/blog/ and puts it after www.joeandjamie.com/blog/ essentially pointing all old links to the new URLs, which is exactly what I wanted! I couldn’t be any happier.

Another important step was getting the image URLs updated. This wasn’t done during any other step because they are part of the content in the post. I very luckily stumbled across a wonderful plugin to take care of this for me.

http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/ – This plugin allows you to enter the old URL and the new one and presto-magico its done…I wish everything were that simple…

I learned a bunch of neat stuff tonight. Feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try my best to help.

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There is only one thing that bugs me about this blog, its the fact that the link is www.joeandjamie.com/blog. I don’t know what possessed me to keep that as the live one, it was only for testing, hence the “2″ part. I really want to make it so its www.joeandjamie.com/blog which matches the blogs title. I know all my hard SEO work will somewhat die off from losing links, but I’ll make sure the mod-rewrite in the .htaccess file works right to redirect it to the correct links. At this early stage I can afford to lose a few back-links, I don’t have too many.

Now that I got that out off my chest, I should talk about the photo gallery. I don’t want to give it away yet, I’ll post the specifics when it is complete. We have always wanted a place online to store and share photos so I decided to create a gallery for them all. I’m in the process of uploading thousands of pictures and organizing them all into albums and categories so the site is nice and navigable.

So stay tuned for more stuff to come, I should have something by the end of the week.

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I have nothing more to say, just noticed it said 100, minor milestone for the blog. Lets see how long it takes to get to 200.

Hats off to Nigeria, Russia, and all the rest of the spam nations, keep up the good work.

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