And we’re back!

Or at least – I am. Now you can expect daily posts with constant status updates! I will be slowly rolling this blog into a more social setting – integrating Facebook, Twitter/Pownce, and Flickr more tightly with the blogging software. This way, you can contact me much more efficiently. Now, where have I been?

After deciding to move this blog over to alexluft.com, I reversed my decision and TechNest will stay exactly where it presently is! My adventures are as follows:

1. I decided to carry my TechNest WordPress-powered blog over to alexluft.com. WordPress said that the easiest way to switch domains within a server (since I have alexluft.com on the same hosting account as luftberg.com) is to follow these instructions. I did. Result? All images became broken after the move. I followed these instructions to fix them in my SQL database. No luck. The results from the SQL queries stated that no tables or rows were affected by the instruction set provided.
2. After posting about my problem above in WordPress.com forums and getting no replies, I decided to play around with it myself. To make long story short, I messed everything up, including the TechNest database, and then fixed it – manually. This took about two weeks. (I needed to build up the courage to edit my SQL database -;).
3. At this point, I was going to manually carry over my TechNest posts, images, links, plugins, themes and everything else to alexluft.com. Oh, I forgot categories. This will take me a day, probably, since I really didn’t have a huge amount of posts there like some other full-time bloggers (which I am currently not).
4. Thanks, WordPress – for not working as by your directions, for not helping me in the forums… But hey! It’s a free product, right? Maybe I should start this blog over with MovableType?
5. Currently, I need to fix my plugins and all the categories for all my posts.

So the moral of the story is: give good directions, WordPress, and provide software that works! For me: build up courage sooner? I don’t really know – I feel like a stranded elephant in the middle of the African jungle – not even hoping for support, not knowing what to do, but I know the road ahead is tough (for the elephant – myself, that is – since I will be laboring manually applying categories to the posts.