Change is in the air

We’re moving. Well that’s not entirely accurate; Kerry, Amy, and I are actually staying right where we are, it’s the blog that is moving.

On a whim last week I bought a domain name and web hosting package on the internet. It’s not that I’m particularly unhappy with using Blogger, but my urge to tinker overwhelmed me. As a consequence I’ve spent the last few days rooted in front of my computer, oblivious to all around me. The only sign I’m actually alive has been an occasional flurry of mouse clicks. The sole method of attracting my attention has to physically throw something at me, and even then I’ve only reacted if it’s drawn blood.

The reason for this absence from everyday life is that I’ve had to switch blog publishing software to wordpress, and to be honest it’s nearly beaten me. Acording to the user guides it’s possible to do all sorts of swanky things; from embedding my flickr gallery in its own page to matching my “now reading” lists to the appropriate images from Amazon. Unfortunatley my version of the software doesn’t seem to have read the user guides, and has stubbornly refused to do anything I’ve asked it to.

Still, after repeatedly mashing my forehead on my keyboard in frustration I’ve managed to come up with something that approximates a usable blog. To the everyday reader it is not immediately evident that much is different. The blog looks about the same, and there is still the same old rubbish written on it as there always is. But beneath the surface, boy that’s a different story. All that comes with it is now a lean, mean blogging machine. It’s code has been optimised to a whole new paradigm of efficiency, the upload speeds have improved by aproximately 147%, and the link to html ratio has been ratified in order to comply with css standard time.

Ok, so I’m talking crap. It’s basically the same as it was before. But I’ve got to justify spending the £4.00 a month on the web hosting so this blog is moving goddamn it.

There are still a few bugs to iron out (the images are acting screwy on occasion), but I feel it’s about ready for public consumption. I’m going to run both the new and the old blog in parallel for a while in order that I don’t lose any readers, but if you link to me then I would appreciate it if you updated your site. Similarly if you bookmark me then you might want to bookmark the new page instead.

Finally; I’m going to turn off the commenting on the old version of the site as would rather keep all the comments together.

Please let me know what you think of the change.

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