DennisTT.Net 10 years old

It’s hard to believe I’ve had this domain name for 10 years! Although I only got the domain in 2004, my first websites date back in 1999-2000 using services like Netscape Websites and Angelfire, and when <blink>, <marquee> and animated GIFs were the craze. I created this blog back in my high school days, before the time of Twitter (now most of my day-to-day spam is there instead… :P).  That was the time while I was in IB, started transit-fanning, and developed MyBB.  Over the decade, some things have changed, some things haven’t.  I’ve since graduated from university, became a Continue Reading

Old blog posts from WordPress 2.6 found and imported

I spent this afternoon digging around my backups, and I was lucky to find my site backup from the end of 2008. I had to find a way to import the posts from WordPress 2.6 into WordPress 3.5.1. Since I had a full site backup, I was able to load the WordPress files and database backup onto my Mac’s local MAMP web development environment (Windows users might use WAMP). From there, I followed the WordPress upgrade procedure. I upgraded directly from WordPress 2.6 to 3.5.1 directly without a hitch, although it recommended to go version by version. Then with a Continue Reading

Hello world!

Getting back into blogging! I debated long whether to use WordPress or to code up my own blog system.  I figured that reinventing the wheel is a waste of time so here I am with WordPress once again.  I’m probably going to modify the homepage a bit and the theme when I have time. I’m also going to dig through some of my archives on my old site and import some of my original blog posts… again when I have time.