Well … the time has come. This is my last post on this blog. Don’t despair … I’m not leaving the blogosphere. I’m just moving to a new address.

You see … for a while now, I’ve felt like I needed a change. I’m no longer doing anything with weather (that’s the Wx in WxGal’s World). And I’ve had this domain for quite some time now. I have no intention of getting rid of it, but it won’t be my primary one anymore.

So … without further ado … my new website is … <drumroll … />

High Tech Redneck Woman

So … update your bookmarks and blogrolls.

Along with the new domain … I’m going to try to have a different outlook this time. I’ve been too negative on this site … sorry about that. But the new one, I’m going to try to be more positive. And I’m going to try to post more programming and techie stuff … hell, it is called High Tech Redneck Woman.

So … come on over to the new site, take a look around, and come back. Leave a comment if you feel like it. I know I don’t have that many regular readers, but I do hope that those of you that are regulars come over the the new place. See ya ’round.

Mood: dorky   To Be Fat Like Me (Lifetime movie)

Okay … I’ve got the newest version of WP up and running now. Everything seems to be working fine. I still have some tweaking to do so I can have my smilie popup in the admin interface. But other than that … and adding content to the pages … everything is ready to go.

If you run across any issues, please let me know. Either post a comment to this post or use the contact form on the Contact page.

I’m going to try to start posting more technical content as well as my usual babble. And I might even try to do some WP plugins. I’m goting to rework the one that I have and am still using. I’ll post that when I get things done.

And out of curiosity … what do you think of the new look?

Mood: accomplished   Charmed rerun

Just wanted to mention that this site will be down for a time today. I’ve been working on a new theme for WP 2.0 so that I can upgrade. I’ve got that pretty much done, so I plan on updating to the latest version of WP today and getting the new theme set up. Hopefully it won’t take too long to do.

Mood: weird

I past-dated a couple of posts down below … Best Funnel Cake EVER and Playing Catch-Up … on June 12th. I had to write them down on paper … that’s right … with a pen on paper … since my website wasn’t working for me. But I still wanted to post them at the time I had written them. So I thought I would alert you to them in case you missed ‘em.

Mood: chillin

… then my domain has finally propagated!

You see … I finally got fed up with my prior web host. As I mentioned here, things happened. Things that really ticked me off. And their poor support only added to things. It was the last straw.

My sites are now hosted on HostGator.com. Mace suggested it to me. He used to have the same host I did … and his sites were on the same server as mine. He got fed up too and switched. He passed along a coupon code too. Thanks again Mace.

As I type this post, I’m still (*patiently … maybe*) waiting for the DNS changes to propagate. But I’m still able to get here and post this. At least then you’ll know what’s up as soon as everything is switched.

I’m already really liking this host. They responded to my pre-sale questions email in about an hour. I sent another with additional questions, and about another hour later, I had another response. MUCH better support response time than the old host. And HostGator has 24/7 support. I’m not sure WHAT the other one has. It’s definitely NOT 24/7 … LOL.

I am paying close to twice what I was before (but it’s still only $10), but I went from having 300mb of web space to having 5gb of web space. That’s quite an upgrade. And the better support is DEFINITELY worth it.

And since I’ve got next week off (woohoo! VACATION!!), I’ll try to work on things. I really want to upgrade this blog to the newest version. But I want to make sure everything is working first. Mainly the layout.

Be on the lookout. There are going to be some changes around here in the next few days … by mid week next week for sure. I’ll fill you in later. Just wanted to give you a heads up if things started getting wonky around here. Like they weren’t already. I mean, I had to hack my HOSTS file in order to view my own frickin’ websites. But not for long …

I’ll let you know what’s going on as soon as I can. ’til then … it’s a secret.

Mood: cheerful

I’ve finally finalized the design I want to use with my site. I’ve put it up on my main site already tonite. I still need to add it to the ShoutOuts page and the Photo Gallery as well as this blog. The photo gallery will be more involved since I’m now using version 2 of Gallery. And the changes to this blog will be a bit as well. I plan on upgrading to the newest version of WP. I’m not gonna bother getting this version to use the new design and then turn around and replace it with the new version. This design will stay ’til I get around to getting the new version up here.

Mood: working

Well … I’m all upgraded to version 1.5. I still have some kinks to work out. I think I have most of my plugins working. I need to double-check everything though. I also need to get the admin side back to my way. I need to add the little hacks I added in that I use all the time. I should be able to get that all done by the end of tonite. Back to it then …

Mood: working

I made a decision. I have completely removed the trackback option from my blog. I never post anything that’s trackback-worth anyway. I haven’t worked on any plugins since I first moved over to WordPress. And nothing else I post is anything anyone else would care about … LOL.

I’ve also closed all comments that are older than the middle of last month. I’m going to keep doing that I think. I’ll keep about a month’s worth of posts open to comments. If any LEGITIMATE comments are ever made on my blog, they’re usually within the first couple of days of when I made the post. Everything else is those fucking spammers. I doubt it will cut down on the crap I get from them, but it can’t hurt. And at least all those crap comments don’t end up on here or in moderation (well, sometimes they do). The vast majority of them get caught by the Spaminator and TarPit plugins I use. I need to set up a test blog to play around with WP 1.5. Don’t know when I’ll get around to that.

Mood: blah

I guess this post pissed of Google, so I’d better change it.

Mood: indescribable