What happened to Rush's blog?

[dinagam]

If I recall correctly from reading his blog sometime back, Noom was working at Tawan bar. I'm sure the boys there know him or his whereabouts if he's no longer employed there.

[Tobi]

I think Rush mentioned towards the end of his blogging that Noom was working at Zeus but only at the weekends.

[bruce_nyc]

Does anyone have a photo of Noom. That might help a lot.

[christianpfc]

There was a picture of Noom on the blog (but good luck finding it, even when pictures are back!), and I think I recognized him several times throughout this year in Soi Twilight, last only weeks ago. I think I saw him entering Dream Boys.

Rush mentioned that Noom is in email contact with his (Rush's) friends and family members.

[BonTong]

If it's just a Wordpress site, it shouldn't be that difficult to rebuild. But if we can get all of the data together, I can even hire a Wordpress expert to put it all back together... on my host. I would love to see it back up again..... as if he never left. And then it can be backed up to several backup sites for safety.

The photos are an essential part of it all, of course. He took great care to select the perfect photos for every section of every article he wrote.

Indeed. Speaking as something of a WordPress expert it should not be too hard to do this. Looking a the site, it seems to be fairly standard WordPress. Provided you have access to the database and the original uploaded photos directory it should be possible to massage the database so it points to where the photos are. i.e as a standalone WordPress installation, rather than part of a multi-site network. It appears to use a standard theme that may still be commercially available. But it's probably not hard to just use or customise a similar theme. All looks like standard stuff with no major theme dependent features.

As you say, the photos are important and it would be necessary to maintain them in the WordPress framework as uploading all the photos again, and adding them back to each post would be a major, major task.

Of course, it would be necessary to use a host that doesn't get bent out of shape over adult content......

[Surfcrest]

There was indeed a post titled, photos of Noom.

http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.c...shots-of-noom/

http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.c...-noom-edition/

When I found the "hyrda" topic through a Google search, the photos loaded up fine and you can scroll from day to day without being re-directed to the expired page.

When I get some time I'll look at solutions for this.

Surfcrest

[Surfcrest]

http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.c...-noom-edition/

If you scroll to the bottom of this functional page you will see links to each month of posts. Everything after November 2013, the photos are not visible...yet.
I believe November 2013 was when he moved over to our server.

I hope to fix that!

Surfcrest

[bruce_nyc]

Of course, it would be necessary to use a host that doesn't get bent out of shape over adult content......

My hosting company is a dream. I love them. They have absolutely no problem with full on porn even. And I have unlimited storage and bandwidth.... as long as the storage is used for serving a web site....

I can set up a standard Wordpress install on my host... on a domain name dedicated to this project ( I own hundreds of extra domain names ). Then, you can just let me know what theme you suggest we try.... or if we can track down the original theme that was used.... and I'll install it. I can then give you admin access to the Wordpress site or whatever is needed to get it up and running again.... just like before.... ( sadly, with no more new updates ).

[bruce_nyc]

On the photos of Noom page....

mark said:July 2, 2014 at 8:58 pm
Nice pics but he does look better in person.

Anyone know who this Mark is...?

Also, of course, the photos of Noom are not loading for me.

[BonTong]

I just ran a quick check. The image problem looks fixable. The problem is the full image urls are embedded in the posts e.g. http://bangkokbois-gay-thailand-blog.co ... /06/n5.jpg which points to a different server (presumably the old one) and the url is dead . Fortunately, as Surfcrest stated earlier, the images seem to be present on the current server and in the right locations e.g:http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.c...2014/06/n5.jpg works!

Therefore, some surgery on the database should fix the problem. If migrating to a new standalone WordPress install some trickery maybe needed to get the directory structure for the uploads compatible, but should be doable.