28/01/2010 
Cyber 
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Big things are happening now, right this moment, as I speak. Two large websites are being merged, their contents fused together, and a new being will soon take form. Will the form bear the resemblance of a treacherous monster? A hideous mass without definable shape and logic, with bugs crawling all over it, with limbs that reach out yet do not seem to reach out to humankind? Or will the form become a beautiful one. Will two enormous foundations accumulate into a swift and agile being, beautiful to the eye, easy to look at, with words that you can hear and a voice clear as crystal. Which form this project takes upon itself will be revealed by the end of the day, ladies and gentlemen, but of course I am hoping for the latter!
The sites I speak of are CyberD.org and CyberDB.org. I’ve been trying to manage both websites seperately for over a year now, but I just don’t have the time to focus on more than one of them at a time. If I start posting blogs here, posting new projects, the other one gets left behind. This is one of the reasons I was motivated to merge both websites, but the primary one is the difficulty in selecting which content should go on which website. This setup solves both problems and will make future management of this site a whole lot easier. It should make it easier for you visitors as well, this domain has a letter less but is otherwise exactly the same as the other, so you’ll save a few milliseconds each time you type in the title! It will also be easier for you to find content, as everything is gathered on the same place.
CyberDB can still be reached, though certain sections of the website may appear nonexistent at the moment. When everything is over, CyberDB.org will be redirecting all traffic to this website, all old pages will be forwarded to their new counterparts, there should be no disturbances in the move. I’ll keep both domains and you’ll be able to use both domains to reach specific content until you get accustomed to typing a “b” less in the domain. Files are currently being transfered both between the sites and between my computer and both sites. Fortunately both websites are hosted on the same server, so moving certain directories from one site to another isn’t too difficult. There are however thousands of faulty URLs that need fixing, which is a project that takes quite an extensive amount of time, seeing as I haven’t really bothered keeping the structure of files free from domain names when I first started working on the website, it’s a useful knowledge I attained first a couple of years ago. Some of these URLs can easily be searched and replaced with nifty utilities such as Text Rep (ran through 16,000 files in just 20sec, replacing cyberdb.org with cyberd.org) but some can’t, and then there’s all the CyberDB text that needs to be transformed, I can’t just replace all of those since some may be a pertinent part of the website history or a part of some other context that would change completely if the domains change, like: “… so then I switched to the CyberDB.org domain in 2007″.
Had some problems integrating my WordPress installation with existing scripts, so I decided to just move it to a seperate directory and retain the directory structure for all other sections, no conflicts this way. This is why the blog currently resides under the b/ directory, and you get redirected here from the startpage. Will probably change the directory to blog to avoid any future references to 4chan, more on that later. Need to skim through the mySQL databases and replace URL’s as well, and go through all static HTML files manually to check for errors. The modified files have to be uploaded from my computer, and I’m taking this opportunity to update sections in need of update so far, been at it all day and right now I’m up at 7200 file transfers (not counting transfers between the two websites). Am sorting through old files as I work on this transfer, so a lot of nostalgia pops up on the way, like this stuff:
The original “CyberDB” logo. Never seen before, I made a new one before uploading the first layout. 
The original “CyberDyze” logo. Most of you probably weren’t around when this site was around, the prequell to this one.
Ooh, it’s me. Remember when I had banners like this at the top of all blogposts?
Plenty of screencaps of my highscores too, like this one, great game btw.
Anyhow, I’ll keep you people posted on how the transfer goes. Night is falling now, and I’ll stay up late, but the move will probably not be completed until late tomorrow (Swedish time), both sites will be up until everything works perfectly. After that, only this site will be up. 
Btw, some images and links on this blog may be malfunctioning atm, will revise them when I’ve decided on the directory name, otherwise I’ll have to redo the process again later. Later.
