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Harvard Weblogs archived by Automattic

Dave Winer just reported that an ancient WordPress MU site that was shutting down has been archived by Automattic. I wasn’t aware that Harvard were using MU back in the day, but if you search, you’ll find posts like this and this one talking about upgrading WordPress MU. Gives me a nice, fuzzy feeling seeing those long ago posts about using WordPress MU. If you don’t know, WordPress MU began life as b2++, a fork of b2 (which became WordPress). The fork was started by me to provide blogs for the linux.ie community at blogs.linux.ie. That site is long gone, […]

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I moved on over to Fastmail

For many years, I hosted my email here on my own server, but it was far from ideal. I used Postfix to run the server. I forwarded the email to my Gmail account using Procmail recipes. I read my email on Gmail, and sent email from there too. That worked most of the time, but if an email had any kind of domain protection such as DKIM or SPF then Gmail was likely to reject the email and unless I was looking at /var/log/mail.log I probably wouldn’t notice. To combat that, I left a copy of every email on this […]