A new toy

As you can see, we’ve made some changes here at BTN, including a webhost move and a switch to Chyrp for blogging. Old content should be reappearing over the next few days, though old URLs may be unreliable.

UPDATE: Comments didn’t all import properly, and I still have some theme (look-and-feel) work to do, but otherwise a smooth move.

FINAL UPDATE: All comments now successfully imported.

Back, but not really

So, how about that LSU game I was so looking forward to the last time I posted here?

Life moves on. The last time I posted here, I was waiting for a job offer. Well, I got it… in Charlottesville. And we bought a house. (And got a mortgage.) And the job beats my brains in enough that when I come home, the last thing I care to do is put together a well-thought-out blog entry.

As some of you have figured out, you’re better off reading my Twitter feed at this point, 140 characters being about the longest coherent thought I can muster. Plus, that format allows approximately 400% more snark, particularly helpful in a month where every day is more fun than the last if you hate WVU fans.

So there are going to be some changes to this site, in order to make it look less like a pathetically abandoned blog and more like a portal to the places I do occasionally update. I may put together the odd column from time to time, and the archives will remain up, but regular posting in blog format is probably a thing of the past at this point.

I’d say the reformat is “coming soon,” but really, that would just insult your intelligence at this point, wouldn’t it?

Construction next 5 miles days

We’re building a better BTN, complete with comprehensible, self-written CSS and coherent-looking individual and archive pages.

So things may be a little bumpy for a while. Go look at my Columbus photoset while you’re waiting. The aim is to have things here completed on a slightly faster schedule than your average VDOT project, and well ahead of Metro to Dulles.

UPDATE: Interesting discovery: for at least the past month, I’ve had a botnet DoSing the crap out of my politics archive. Thankfully, my webhost is (a) strong and (b) rather slack on load restriction enforcement. Time to rename that category and delete the old pages… apologies to anyone live who gets 404’d and finds their way here.

Out for a bit

The Canes took the Habs and Jersey down in dominating fashion. The Sabres series isn’t going quite so well. But in lieu of paying attention to hockey over the next couple of weeks, or fixing that annoying left/right justify bug on the title page, I’ve got…

…other plans.

BTN’s going to be dormant for a couple of weeks. (Yeah, I know, what’s the difference from normal?) To keep y’all occupied, check out a few semi-new Flickr sets that haven’t been featured here yet:

• Arizona+MN 2006: visiting Amy, catching some hockey, and a layover-length visit to downtown Minneapolis in winter
• Hockeyfest 2006: mid-March, Quebec and Ontario, 3 2 games in 3 nights, with action photos courtesy new camera of awesomeness, plus geographical oddities you’ll only find on one of Josh’s solo adventures
• DC Sports Apr-06: more action from Canes-Caps and Nats-Mets

Back in a while… and you’ll probably get more pictures then too. Photoblog anyone?

Public Service Announcement

Russian spammers attacked this morning. This has forced an upgrade of the software that runs BTN to a version that’ll give me a chance at stopping that sort of thing. BTN may look a bit odd for a few days until I get the quirks of MT 3.2 straightened out; your patience is appreciated.

This entry was going to disappear when the BTN upgrade was finished. But the commenters made it worth keeping anyway… which should tell you where the real good stuff comes from on this blog.