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Happy 2010: The Happy Chair by Jan Schreiner

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Happy 2010 to all fellow chair and chair design lovers!

Thank you for your continuous support and curiousity. In December the blog had 17,121 unique visitors and 34,760 page views. So we are hopefully moving up again after the dip caused by the November change of server and unfortunate downtime of my Internet Service Provider.

Recently I updated a post about a chair designed by Jan Schreiner his The Twist Chair from almost a year ago. On Jan’s site I discovered this Happy Chair and what happier design than a Happy Chair to start 2010, a new year and a new decade.

Yay! Even on the Dutch Bloggies Shortlist!

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To my huge surprise Chair blog even made it into the shortlist in the category Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs of the Dutch Bloggies, but Mick! won this award. And deservedly so. Nice design! Congratulations Mick!

WoW..uhm Arghhh – Chairblog in the 2nd Round of the Dutch Bloggies

Despite my earlier skepticism I’ve made it into the second round of the Dutch Bloggies Awards.

I’ve been put on the long lists in the category
Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs
together with 9 other blogs originating from The Netherlands:

    1. Art Update
    2. Beats Nothing [site disappeared]
    3. Blocter
    4. Cultuur Podium Online
    5. Eeuwig weekend
    6. Het Roze Olifantje
    7. Mick!
    8. New Work, and
    9. Viceland

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Thank you, Jury!

Tomorrow Night will be Awards Night here in The Hague as my fine city sponsors the event …we will see.

Arghhh? Why

Timing couldn’t have been worse.
Last month KPN (Dutch Telecom) decided in its wisdom to stop web hosting for another site I operate. That induced me to look for another hosting company that I used already for quite some time for my two blogs.
I needed some reshuffling of my domains and then the problems started to hit the fan big time. It meant that all had to be transferred from one server to another server of my provider.
After having transferred this blog from one server to the other server I found out after the fact that I had lost many links to the photos.
I also had messed up urls and internal links of the blog and am now working my ass off to redress that in a cumbersome manual weeding out of the errors post by post (and there are over 1150 posts now….)
Although many have been repaired, there still remain errors….
At least the 2009 posts are more or less in order now, but still many to go…
In addition my new provider’s network crashed two times big time last week…
That’s why:-)

So if you are checking this out, please give me some leeway 🙂

Chair Blog’s new Logo – Thank You Josiah!

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Some time ago @Josiah Mackenzie asked me whether he could help me with my logo design. He volunteered some ideas and one of those I combined with the part of my old Chair Blog Logo design that featured the .03 Chair of Maarten van Severen.

Old Chair Blog Logo

Maarten van Severen .03 chair

Josiah is a real Internet Jack of all Trades: He runs the Hotel Marketing Strategies blog and some more.

Long overdue, Josiah, but here it is finally: My big official Thank You Note for your help with Chair Blog’s new logo.

Hello world! Chair Blog continues on a new server

I leave this post that comes automatically with a new WordPress installation as it marks the transition of Chair Blog to a new server. Mind you: I choose Friday November 13, 2009.

But this one went very smoothly.

I installed WordPress from scratch on the new server. Then exported from the old server all posts and attachments in XML format and prior to installing any plug in I imported the whole lot into the newly installed one.

The help desk of my ISP, Yourhosting.nl was very forthcoming when I had made an error with the MySQL password (I had replaced an uppercast by an undercast character). Thank you Yourhosting!.

Photos, comments and pages all came over here luckily. In total 2027 posts plus attachments and comments. Sigh. A lot of work.

Until I’ve changed the look and feel back to as it used to be prior to this switch. I won’t post. But stay tuned because that may be very soon!