After considering the issue of whether to talk about my employer in this blog, thinking about what I wanted to write about my profession in general, and how to maximize the potential of owning the url CorrosionEngineer.Net, I have decided the following:

• I will no longer refer to my employer on this blog.
• I’m going to go back through this blog and redact previous references to same.
• I’m not only going to start a separate blog about corrosion engineering, I’m going to start a whole new website dedicated to the profession.
• This is going to take a hell of a lot of work, and I must be crazy.

So I sunk a couple of bucks into hosting, started what will undoubtedly be an insane amount of effort, and created the start of CorrosionEngineer.Net. So far, it’s just a blog, but I outline what I intend to do and how I think I’ll do it. It is crazy, but it just might work.

Wish me luck.

Posted by Greg as Corrosion Control at 18:56 PST

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I’m trying something new again that might mess a bunch of things up. I set up the subdomain blog.gregrperry.com for this blog. It’s one of my first tries with subdomains.

All the files are still actually located in www.gregrperry.com/blog/, so I guess it’s some sort of redirect. The first thing I noticed is the pop up saying that my Google Maps API key was for a different site – www.gregrperry.com is different than blog.gregrperry.com. I got a new API key, so now everyone else who comes in through the old way will be seeing the pop up.

I’m also guessing this is going to screw up my search results in Google and other search engines, and probably screw up my PageRank. The redirect is also botching things when I try to log into other sites using OpenID.

I’ll have to chalk all this up to learning experiences.

Posted by Greg as My Website at 12:11 PST

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