Regular readers will notice this site has changed a bit in recent days. There’s a new look – or theme in Wordpress‘ private language – and a handful of new features. This is because I’ve just moved from a wordpress.com site to a self-hosted version of the site at billbennett.co.nz. Once things settle down – and a week after the move things still aren’t right -I may comment more on the switch.

There are however a couple of pressing issues to worry about. First, I’ve arranged things so anyone visiting my old site is automatically transferred to the new one. The automatic redirection is largely working, but it isn’t perfect. There are a few information pages here with different URLs. It’s not that important, but for a while I was using a redirection plug-in to route people looking for the old pages to the new replacements. This had to go as the plug-in was causing problems elsewhere.

My other problem is my online identity is closely tied to my old Wordpress address. I’m registered with dozens of other sites as billbennettnz with pointers to the old site. While the redirection from wordpress.com to here is in operation this won’t matter. I’ve paid for a year in advance and could go on paying for subsequent years. But I’d prefer to either retire the old wordpress.com identity and create a new one or, even better, update that identity to reflect the new reality.

OK you’re saying, why don’t you Google for an answer to this? Or perhaps look for information on how to do this at the Wordpress support site. Fair enough. But my need is so obscure that I don’t have a clue about the terms to search for.

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When I wrote earlier about my decision to dump Zemanta, Jure Cuhalev commented on the post about a new version of the software being on its way. I made a mental note to give the new version a shot, but promptly forgot all about it. Today, working on a different computer, I noticed the Zemanta Firefox plug-in has been updated from version 0.2something to 0.5. So in the interest of fairness, I’m giving it another try. Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll let you know how the new version is working.

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