Month: March 2019

Microsoft Certified Professional Exam Status

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Where do I start? Migrating this blog over the weekend has led to a bit of a review and the realisation that a lot of the blog posts relate to my journey preparing for and sitting (and generally passing!) Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams.

The last exam related post on this blog is Passed 70-631 WSS Configuring Today which was posted just under 10 years ago – yikes. I’m delighted to see that posts in the meantime related to Motorcycling and Off Road Skills so that would indicate some wider interests other than work.

As I write I am two weeks from passing my most recent Microsoft Exam Continue reading “Microsoft Certified Professional Exam Status” →

AlistairL Blog migration from SubText to WordPress

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In the spirit of the web I thought I would share a little more detail on how I migrated the content from my existing platform to new. This blog started in 2004 on a platform called subtext and with my dev skills fading in to the background and the original platform not being maintained anymore I was looking for something easier to run with (and a more current platform).

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A new home for AlistairL

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It has been a long time running but this is the second (more visible) post in the process of moving my blog from a hosted .net site running in SubText to something that is a bit more modern (yeah, 3 years behind the curve again – just look when I created this).

I’m going to do some checks of content etc but the plan will be to be a bit more active on to a platform that has a future.

The unfortunate side effect is that the comments haven’t come across – the api in the very old version of SubText that I was using didn’t have commenting. I’ve got a backup of the full original database but I’m not optimistic that posterity will bring back the comments (all over 10 years old now).

I need to get the domain switched over – what fun!