Moving to the new server – update

Posted on 22/02/2009 by admin

I managed to install and configure both the 2.7.1 version of WordPress and the Squible 2.0 template (the first version is the official template of the blog you’re reading); unfortunately the content migration has been a huge failure.

I’ve tried the following with no results:

Content export from WP 2.01 and import into WP 2.7.1
RSS export from WP 2.0.1 and import into WP 2.7.1
RSS export from Feedburner and import into WP 2.7.1
XML export from MySQL and import into WP 2.7.1
Database export from MySQL (hotmc.com server) and import into MySQL (lineagialla.com server)

And, sincerely, this is enough for me and for the time I can dedicate to System Administration tasks.

So I decided to switch to a super-technological ultra-geek solution: copy and paste the whole content adding the original time/date data and placing the right tags on each post. This been said I’ll also evaluate the possibility (and the costs) of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to paste the whole blog archive (starting from 2002 or so, and written in Italian).

This might be translated into false updates of the RSS feed, hope this won’t be a mess for you.

The Penzo’s Christmas Eve menu

Posted on 24/12/2008 by admin

This year Christmas Eve dinner is going to be slightly atipical since we broke the tradition to spend it with parents (mine or my wife’s) and we’ll be just the 3 of us: me, my wife and my daughter.I’ve spent the whole morning buying food (fish at the market, champagne at the winery, this and that at the supermarket, etc. etc.) while the afternoon was for the cooking (and for parentally control my 3 years daughter who’s at home from school).This is going to be our menu (photos will follow):Antipasti

USA Lobster with onions and tomatoes (I don’t know the English term for Lobster “alla Catalana” and wasn’t able to find it on wikipedia; any help?)
Vol-au-vents with shrimps and cocktail sauce or with Russian Salad
Smoked salmon with roasted bread and butter
Roasted vegetables with olive oil

First course

Spaghetti alla chitarra with shrimps, fresh tomatoes and artichokes

Dessert

Hand-made Panettone

Wine

Brut 2002 Blanc de Blancs, Champagne, Palmer & Co

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Future Practice User Experience Webinars

Posted on 01/12/2008 by admin

User Experience guru and author now turned editor, former UXnet colleague and – last but not least – good friend Louis Rosenfeld has just launched a brand new initiative for all you UX professionals and practitioners out there: the Future Practice User Experience Webinars.The webinars will cover the cutting edge of contemporary user experience research and design methods and will be hosted by top nocth UX speakers (such as Modern Web Form Design with Wroblewski – you might also want to take a look at my article Label placement in forms on the same subject).These 60-minute webinars are initially available as live classes, and then are made available in a recorded, edited format.There’s a 25% off special discount (for the live and, ultimately, recorded webinars) for the loyal readers of Yellow Line that will use this promo-code:

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Lou and his crew are doing a wonderful job with the UX related books adventure; I’m sure they’ll produce high quality webinars too!’