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Apology for the outages today

May 30, 2007
By Michael Townsend
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I apologize for the outages today on Clever Dude. You may have noticed that the categories on the left have much lower numbers now. I changed all my articles to only be associated to a single category over the weekend. However, stupid me didn’t realize that my permalinks (URLs) use the category in the URL. Therefore some (not sure how many) of my posts were unreachable.

I was working on my .htaccess file to try to redirect my categories, but I’m illiterate when it comes to this file, and just couldn’t get it to work (thanks to Trent from The Simple Dollar for trying to help). I finally accepted that WordPress was blocking the redirects. However, I did finally figure out how to redirect chunks of pages through a 301 redirect, so I’ll be working on reducing the amount of categories available over the next couple days.

Yeah, I hate clutter.

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About Michael Townsend

Michael Townsend founded CleverDude.com in June 2006 while working as a technical analyst in the Washington, D.C. area. A Penn State graduate, he built the site as a side project alongside a white-collar career that included earning a master’s degree and multiple promotions.

In five years he wrote nearly 1,300 articles on personal finance and life lessons drawn from his own experience. The blog grew from a hobby into a recognized early voice in the personal-finance community and generated meaningful revenue. He sold the site in 2010, continued as a guest contributor through 2015, and returned in 2023 after further career advances, paying off his home, and extensive travel.

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