The move from my old web server to the new one went swimmingly. You are now visiting a site proudly hosted with MediaTemple. They seem to offer great packages. Their custom control panel is pretty nice and fairly intuitive.
My new blog is online now as well. Took a bit of time for me to get it back up just because I did not relish the thought of going through my previous custom blog and pulling out all the posts.
The blog now runs off of WordPress, which seems to be pretty decent so far. Their control panel is really flashy. I have never really liked the idea of using other peoples software for my websites when I can just make my own and then have total knowledge and control over what is happening, but I have had plans on completing my blog software for so long and have not had the time to get around to it I finally just put WordPress on my development server to test it out. It has improved a lot over the years since I used it last. For now I am going to be keeping it around since it makes things so much easier for me. Then if/when I get the chance to complete my CMS and custom blog software I can easily export all the entries from WordPress to an XML file and write a custom script to import them to my blog. That will make it nicer for people that may switch away from WordPress to my software too 
I will be moving my website to a new webhost shortly. I will details all the reasons for the move once complete. If this site is offline please try again shortly.
As you all know(or can set by simply looking) the CSS on this site is a little broken. Also IE centers my blog listing and summaries. Yes I am aware of it, and no I have not done anything to fix it, YET.
I have been rather busy since I redid the layout of this site. I have had many other web projects on hand and my personal site tends to get pushed to the back burner.
The exciting news is however that I have been working on a custom templating system that when complete will be implemented on this site. That means the layout issues will be corrected, and I will have one very easy to maintain site template file. This file can easily be opened in a WYSIWYG editor and changed all without breaking my site. Currently I just include a bunch of stuff on my index page and spit it out. I am going for total seperation between logic and presentation. My current templating system(Not implemented on this site) does not work that way and I was challenged to build one that would.
If time around work and school provide I can have it done inside a week, but considering the large project deadline looming at work, and the imminent demise of my grandfather it will most likely be a few more weeks.
So if there are any faithful readers out there don't give up yet. I also want to implement an RSS feed as well.
Right after the templating system is done I intend to start on my custom CMS(Content Management System) again, which is partly done already.
Cheers
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