Filed under: life, projects, site
Yesterday I took the first step to my 3-month plan of reorganizing and consolidating my online identity.
It started with moving my sites from a rather-expensive-yet-discounted dedicated Windows/IIS server (thanks for the many years of great service ServerBeach!) to a much more cost-effective Media Temple *nix server on their affordable (dv) system. I couldn't be happier by that choice now that Movable Type (my blogging software) runs like a frickin dream when compared to it running on the aging Active Perl platform I had on Windows.
I then proceeded to prepare my shift to chrisfullman.com by renaming many of my usernames, like Twitter (@chrisfullman for anyone who isn't following me yet), Flickr and a few others. Oh, those of you who followed my old username don't have to do anything... Twitter handles changes of usernames very well.
I also adopted a new e-mail address, one I believe will stay with me as long as I'm doing this. Everyone can reach "me at chrisfullman.com". Tons more memorable than Hotmail or my fullmanator.com address.
In the next few months I will shift completely to chrisfullman.com, and this domain will be phased out over the next two years.
It's the end of one era and the beginning of another. Sometimes a nickname has to go away. Besides, everyone's been pretty good about calling me Fullman anyways.
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me@(insert-domain-name).com is easy to remember. i personally prefer something like cf@chrisfullman.com . that way people don't think "but wait, I thought I am me?" what?"
I thought about that, but then any variation of my name sounds redundant after it's followed by the domain. Since my domain is just "me," I figured "me" was all I needed without saying my name twice.
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