So. Dot com. Obviously, this didn't happen overnight. Hence the lack of updates. Many apologies. It was probably under a week of actual working moving over, but when you spread that out over sporadic weekends, it ends up taking a while.

Why the move? Partly just to try something new. My webpages have generally progressed mostly with my experimentation with new things. It started when I was pretty young, just me manually editing HTML, back in the days when you actually had to know HTML to have a webpage. (I may be exaggerating slightly, but I do remember my distaste for GeoCities and my disgust at FrontPage when I ended up having to maintain some of its mess.) The birth of the iframe and of blogging sites allowed a much easier way to update my page, and so a second design was born, not too ugly, but table-based and pixel-perfect back when I didn't know better. Then, in college, not content to keep things easy, I guess, I decided to write my own blogging system from scratch, mostly as a way of teaching myself Perl. I later learned MySQL, and moved my blog database away from the ad hoc file database I had been using. The DB schema changed once after I actually learned MySQL, and I had to add a captcha because of some comment spam, but it remained mostly untouched, with occasional maintenance when the OCF would change something with their servers.

On a whim, or maybe in reaction to an OCF downtime, I decided to do this move. Again, partly to do something new and to see how easy it would be, but also partly because I like the aesthetic of a dot com. (Insert uninteresting stuff about DNS and directories here.) The possibility of reduced maintenance was also a plus. So now we're here, running on Blogger (with some wrangling of a custom layout) and Google App Engine (with the Blogger Data API). Lessons learned? Google App Engine is pretty awesome, but the loss of fine control of the blogging side was a bit jarring. I suppose I could use the App Engine Datastore, but I didn't want to re-reinvent the wheel. I've moved the posts from the previous version of my site over (sorry, I couldn't do the comments), and I'll be trying to set up 301s if I can get the OCF's Apache to cooperate. (In my experience, these things are either really easy or impossible. [EDIT: It was really easy.]) In the meantime, take a look around. If anything seems to not be working, let me know.