Surely receiving an ulcer for my efforts, I’ve finally changed web hosts. No wonder I’d waited so long to do it, despite paying way beyond current market rates for hosting (OLM/Webaxxs) and despite putting up with rather shoddy customer service. At any rate, the nameservers have been redirected and at least from here, the domain is pointing to the new hosts (TotalChoice Hosting).
Stuff is broken here and there, namely the Photo Gallery running on Gallery 2. Who knows when I’ll get this up and running. At this point, to stave off a complete greying of my hair, I may well just pony up for someone to install it for me (installing is not the problem actually, just getting it to see the database and writing out correct URLs).
And I’ve decided, with a somewhat heavy heart, to jettison Movable Type as the software that powers this blog in favor of the leaner and somewhat easier-to-use WordPress. It’s not really worth going into the reasons for the move, but I’ve used WP before and am very pleased with it.
One of the nice things about WP is the ability to change “themes” very quickly, as well as access to a host of themes created by others. It sure beats mucking about with template tags and css, but it does tend to lead to a raft of stale looking sites, this one included. For now I’m just going with the standard “Kubrick” style, with some slight modifications to the CSS (props to the Firefox extension EditCSS). Not happy with it, but everything in its due time I suppose.
I’ve gotten rid of the “Moblog” (old one here, with images broken!), which I hadn’t updated since last December anyway after MFOP2 went down. Flickr, while not being a site I’ve fully embraced, does have a very nice moblog implementation which I will continue to use to post “mobile” entries to the main blog. And, as will become obvious, I’ve integrated my old “links blog” (here) into the main blog as well, in a blatant ripoff of Kottke’s Remaindered Links.
If you use RSS to keep up with my very sporadic postings, please make sure you’re now using this feed.
Now I know why the RSS feed did not show any news… you changed first and then announced 🙂
I recommend putting a fake RSS file in the previous location used by MT with an announcement… if you’re worried about lost vanity traffic that is.
actually, I did make a post on the old blog with the new RSS feed announcement before changing, but i think the pointing of the nameservers to the new hosting service propagated a lot more quickly than I anticipated and a lot of folks didn’t pull in that post. You’re not the first to mention never having “received” that post via RSS.
Dang. I didn’t know anyone still used Mfop2. After I had to move servers I intended to get it up and running, but I received 0 emails about it. No complaints or even “What’s up?” really made me think twice so I went with the much easier option of just letting it die a peaceful death.
Well actually Kevin, I remember at the time checking the Mfop2 page and it said something like “I’m not supporting this anymore” and I figured you were a busy guy and it would probably come back online at some point. But no worries, the service was great while it lasted and I’m sure I’m not the only one who appreciated that you created it in the first place, and allowed me and others to use it for free for as long as we did.