A San Franciscan “Pueblo me llamo”

This year's haftseen.

This year's haftseen.
This year's haftseen.

Site Migration Issues and Solutions

After more than a decade of gathering and sharing my thoughts using a mix of wikis, Wordpress instances and other random solutions, consolidating them into a format that had long-term value, like plain text files, seemed like a great idea. Jekyll makes this easy, in large part because the content can then be easily converted to static sites that can be quickly deployed.

Here are some issues I’ve run into during this migration and the solutions I’ve found:

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A Crack in the System

After a couple of hours of getting acquainted with Jekyll and deploying it using GitHub Pages, I turned my attention to getting Nassim’s new blog migrated to our host. It’s called A Crack in the System and focuses on issues I really care about, including animal liberation and food habits. She’s in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas right now and will be using it to share her perspectives on what’s going on down there. (Hint: It doesn’t sound all that different from what going on here).

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