The Agile Micro ISV Blog

After a couple of hiccups, the blog appears to have migrated across from Typepad. Good riddance. What was I thinking? The only thing I’ll miss about this blog’s former host is sitting on the Typepad update stream which flies straight into Google. I’m hoping the great Google Juice will persist now, even though I had 404’s on the permalinks for a  day.

I’m probably not going to port the images across, just because, well, this blog isn’t the highest priority. Day job, micro ISV and my offshore consultancy gigs all take precedance, but I’m looking forward to being able to get back to blogging here again.

Image by TylerIngram via Flickr

If everything goes smoothly, this will be the last post I make to this blog whilst hosted on Typepad. I’m attempting to port it across to Wordpress on Dreamhost to live with all my other sites.

I’ve
used Wordpress a lot recently, and now understand its total superiority
to Typepad in pretty much every regard. My $150 renewal fee is due in a
couple of days, which has focused my mind somewhat. This blog has great
Google Juice, and I really don’t want to give that up, so I’m
particularly keen to keep the URLs the same. There are quite a few
posts on the web about how best to do this, they all seem different

If anyone’s done this recently, please share your wisdom.

See you on the flip side.

Image by alexkingorg via Flickr

Seldom
does a change in day job generate a vast amount of excitement for the
professional freelancer. It’s always interesting to move to a new
project, overcome new challenges etc., but an office is an office and a
project is a project.

I set the backdrop to illustrate by counterpoint just how psyched I am about what I’m going to be doing. As of next week, I will be working for Microsoft Research on the Chem4Word project. I’ll be based in The Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics at Cambridge University. My passions for science and software have never clashed like this – I quite literally cannot wait.