For about ten minutes, there was a post here describing the pending move to Media Temple from my VPS account with TekTonic…

Until I found that I’d be paying an additional $20/month for their services on top of the $20/month hosting costs.

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In the last month and a half since I touched this, apparently there was a major religious holiday (Kwanzaa, duh), the Patriots cemented their place in Final Jeopardy history for the next decade, and the doesn’t-mean-a-god-damned-thing elections in Iowa and New Hampshire can’t decide between six of one or a half dozen of the other.

I’ve got a lot of things that I want to write about, but right now I’ve just popped in to mention the following snippets while I expand other ideas into proper paragraphs

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Rick Marshall has a story to tell.

After “parting ways” with Wizard Magazine earlier this month, Rick has been blogging about it very publicly for the last few days. The online comic book industry sites seem to be supporting this, and it doesn’t seem like it’s simply because they’ve all hated Wizard for years. For the record though, they’ve all hated Wizard for years.

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I’m shutting down pretty much every single domain I own, orangefort.com included, while I work out what to do with all of them. I’ve ceased all contracting work on the side, and I’m scaling back the ambitions I’ve poured a lot of the last year into.

Basically, if it’s not my full time job, cooking, or unpacking from the apartment move in September, I’m not doing it.I’d like to start writing more, so I’ve started moving away from sticking things all over a dozen domains, and boiling it all down to here.

Expect some pages to be posted in the near future, as well as something other than the stock Wordpress theme. I tried to move into simplelog but the virtualized server I’m using just doesn’t have enough oomph for Ruby long term.