Switched to WordPress

Some of you may already know that on November 1st, many the web sites belonging to my family and friends disappeared and over the next few weeks have only slowly begun to reappear. My own Muninn site was one of them, and there were various files missing from my backup (fortunately, all blog entries and the database was intact). Until today, I only partially restored the Muninn blog and decided that when I had the time I would go through with a switch to WordPress, something I have been wanting to do every since Movable Type abandoned the free software movement.

The short version of the story behind this saga of website downtime is that the horrible host we were using lost all their files, including backups (if they ever had them). You can read more about my horrible experiences with Blutekhosting if you like, but suffice to say that I have switched hosts for all the projects and continue to try to get the various projects I hosted up and running while not letting my studies suffer as a result.

I’m still in the process, however, so expect fewer postings, and a few glitches here and there at Muninn while I put a few hours aside every few days to restore a feature or fix a few bugs. In the meantime I’m also borrowing a site design (made by Alex King) that I’m also using at Frog In a Well until I can get some time to work on the design for the site.

UPDATE: I’m slowly working on the design. I have switched to another design, this time by Michael Heilemann and modifying it. I’m going to change the colors to a dark green eventually, but one thing at a time…