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 https://journalized.zed1.com . 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)