My site is now hosted by Prime Hosting. I’ve switched away from WebFusion for 3 reasons:

1. I was paying too much.
2. WebFusion only offered me 1 MySQL database; I now get 5, which is plenty.
3. Prime Hosting offers Ruby and Ruby on Rails support. This is a Good Thing™ as Ruby is cool. :-)

I think I have successfully transferred all content from my old site; this took a bit of faffing as I had this blog, a phpBB forum and an SMF forum, plus some random crap.

Unfortunately, in the MySQL unload/reload the character sets of my posts and comments seem to have been munged a bit. Since I like Unicode (well, UTF-8) and I like typing in “special” characters like ellipsis (…), Trademark (™) and en- and em-dashes (– and —), there are a fair few posts with glitches, as they are now apparently Latin-1 in the database. Or something. I can’t figure it out, but if I change them through the WordPress interface, it seems to work.

I want a Theremin. OH WOW! Moog Music is due to release a sort of cut-down Minimoog: the Little Phatty. Yum!

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