Jonathon Delacour the heart of things

Are we having fun yet?

Not really.

I’ve given my weblog a mild makeover, transfered my domain to the new hosting service, and now I’m waiting for the DNS changes to propogate, which evidently takes between 24 and 72 hours. I think I’d rather have spent these past ten days at the dentist.

It’s easy to tell whether you’re looking at the new version of my site or the old one. In the new design the calendar has been replaced by a randomly-generated image that links to an earlier weblog entry and the last ten comments are listed immediately below the Search form (thanks to Burningbird for the MT code).

Thanks also to Burningbird and Herman Coomans for providing moral and technical support during the transition, although any glitches are entirely my responsibility.

I said to Herman at one point, “I suppose there’s a lot that can go wrong.” To which he replied, “Yes, and it quite often does.”

Now it’s a matter of waiting with crossed fingers to see how it all turns out.

P.S. A lot of inbound links to my previous address took the form http://weblog.delacour.net/index.html because that’s the URL that appeared in the browser location field (I had a script that looked at incoming referers from my old Radio UserLand blog and redirected them to the appropriate Movable Type individual archive page.)

I’m no longer doing that and now my index page (only) has a .php extension (for Mert Yaldiz’s random image code). There’s a redirect from http://weblog.delacour.net/index.html to http://weblog.delacour.net/index.php but, if you are linking to my main page, you might want to change the link to http://weblog.delacour.net/.

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