The move is complete but the new blog is not. I’ve successfully imported all of the posts and comments from the old location and will be tweaking them over time to have them fit the style template of the new blog properly. The importation via Wordpress was much easier than I thought it was going to be. You will find various things changing with the overall layout as I tweak here and there. It’ll probably be an extended process.

The move consisted of a number of events and decisions:

1. A decision between MovableType or Wordpress as the blogging platform needed to be made.
2. I dusted off a .ca domain that I had parked a few years ago and had to change some privacy settings so that people would have to work a little harder to figure out the name of the owner.
3. Adrian needed to set everything up on his server (ie. mySQL, domain forwarding, and email).
4. Importation of the old blog entries.
5. Convincing Ameloblast to let me be the principal author (I reminded him how one day he had balls and the next day he didn’t–what could be next?).
6. And the most difficult decision: Choosing a Style for the blog.

I fiddled around with style after style. I almost settled on a very dark (black) theme but The Girl felt very strongly against it. She reminded me that I still have my balls.

I ended up liking the 3-column Cutline theme by Chris Pearson. As I was looking at it, I realized that I’d seen the 2-column version recently over at a friend’s blog. When I bounced over there to check it out, I found that he had actually reviewed a few themes. This is where I found the theme that I’m using now. There are things that I love with it and things that I don’t. I think I can fix the things that I don’t like but I’ll need to sneak these modifications in when I have time.

In the meantime, blogging continues…