{"id":2814,"date":"2007-08-14T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200708\/the-examined-life-v-40\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:10:15","slug":"the-examined-life-v-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200708\/the-examined-life-v-40\/","title":{"rendered":"The Examined Life, v4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Jagadguru’s blessings, I hereby declare this revision of The Examined Life<\/em> open to the public. <\/p>\n

Officially, The Examined Life was founded on August 14, 2002, exactly five years back. I wasn’t using any standard blogging software then. I had rigged up something in ASP and used an MS Access database. Those posts were always available with me, but they were not online, which I am sure was a great loss to humanity. Fortunately, I have found time to extract the posts and integrate it with WordPress. They are now available in my archives (all posts before Jan 2004), or you can find them by going to: http:\/\/vintage.ravikiran.com<\/a>. (Warning: Lots of broken links, and I haven’t imported any comments. I will do so later.) <\/p>\n

I took it down around Jan 2004 and shifted to Movable Type with MadMan’s help in April. Later he helped me move to WordPress. Counting this as a major redesign, we are at v 4.0. This version will continue to uphold the fine traditions established by this blog – viz. defend the good, oppose the wicked and make bad puns. <\/p>\n

I had formed a mailing list of some friends to get feedback on the redesign effort (which I codenamed Plato because I am pompous and self-important). I had actually softlaunched this blog and started posting a few days back; just scroll down for more posts. I would like to thank them for giving me advice and blame them for anything that has gone wrong. <\/p>\n

Like any great software development effort, Plato was and still is behind schedule. I am launching this on August 14 because I wanted to launch on the fifth anniversary of my blog. There are still lots of things to do. We will probably get to 4.2 or 4.3 before it stabilizes. Please update your bookmarks to blog.ravikiran.com<\/a>, because ravikiran.com will contain my homepage, not my blog. My old permalinks will stay that way till I get around to redirecting them. My feeds have automatically been redirected – or so I think. But nonetheless you can find my RSS 2.0 feed at: http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/feed\/<\/a> and my comments feed at: http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/comments\/feed\/<\/a>. Please let me know if you find anything broken or if something can be better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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