Economics International Blog » Uncategorized http://www.econinternational.com/blog An informal look at economics, finance, and statistics Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:06:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hello world! A new blog for a new year. http://www.econinternational.com/blog/2011/12/hello-world/ http://www.econinternational.com/blog/2011/12/hello-world/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:28:30 +0000 Eric Fruits http://www.econinternational.com/blog/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> You may notice that the old blog is gone.  The site got infested with some type of malicious code that inserted spam into RSS feeds.  I figured if it affects the RSS feeds, then it must have infected other parts of the blog, too.

So, I backed up the old posts and blew everything away.

In the end, that was a good thing.  I was using an old version of PHP and WordPress.  The complete re-install feels like having a brand new blog.

And it is a brand new blog.

Just as I was getting ready to import the old posts, I thought to myself, “Does anyone really care what I wrote about two years ago?”  I figured if I didn’t care, then know one else does and the import never happened.

So, here’s to a New Year and clean slate.

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