The Lair

Moved hosts yesterday. If some stuff doesn’t show up on your browser, you know why. DNS updates should have propagated around the planet by now, though - so please do let me know if things are intolerably broken. On that note, props to Quasi for noticing my rewrite rules hadn’t been moved over.

Got back from a thoroughly enjoyable London visit on Wednesday. Safe to say that I was a reasonable hit with my nieces, which always does my inferiority complex a world of good… Unfortunately, my overly long locks were the subject of a lot (too much) comment - and the disrespectful tykes (heh heh, not really) resorted to tugging my hair to get my attention. Also discovered that a couple of kids I had last seen 10 years ago had … grown up a bit.

Came back home to remember that my current hosting contract was due to expire in a few days, so had to frantically move an year’s worth of cruft into a new server. In summary, more expensive hosting; but it also allows me a bit more scope in terms of software so it’s probably worth it. A publicly accessible domain and hosting is a bit like a microwave or a USB key purchase, really… you never realize exactly how useful it is till you’ve tried it. Also made a possibly regrettable pair of impulse domain buys which I’ll reveal in a while - I’m now on my way to becoming a domain overlord! yikes. On that note, my personal feedreader project is nearly ready for public consumption. I’ve used it every day I’m at my machine for more than a month now and it serves my needs admirably. The new host allows me to set cron based updates to the feeds, which was really the missing link.