I have started my weblog over on this spiffy new host (Corner Host) because my old host, metronet.com, got a new owner who decided to cut all his old subscribers loose when he took over.
I had not made any entries to my weblog on metronet, (No Pundits Here), for over a month in any case, because the databases had gotten corrupted by high load levels on the server. On Friday the 10th of October I checked my email around 4:00 before leaving work, and then tried again around 8:30 that night. At 8:30 there was no response from the server, either on the web or by secure shell login. It continued that way through the weekend. On Monday I posted a question asking what had happened to metronet on the dfw.internet.providers newsgroup, and learned from the replies that metronet had been sold, and there was little likelihood of the old site ever coming back.
After a few days to convince myself that this was the case, I started looking around for a new hosting service, and here I am on Corner Host. MT installation went reasonably well by ftp (didn't spring for the shell account), save one vexing problem with getting the entries to actually appear (default entry mode is draft -- not publish. D'oh!!)
I originally intended to import my last backup from the old weblog here and just continue as before -- same name, same styles, same everything. But I looked at the Google cache of the old site and it looked kind of tired, not really what I want to present any more. So let the other site die in dignity, I guess.
And here I am in my new home. I expect I will continue to look for news and links that are quirky, outrageous, or generally interesting to post here with my take on them. I mean, that's what a weblog is for, right?
As for the name, one phrase that I seem to have heard a lot in my life is, "What was in your mind when you ...". So maybe this is what is in my mind.
I am sure it will take a while for my (12-20) readers to find me again, but I will post away just as if this were a topgun blog. Bon appetit.
Posted on October 19, 2003 03:56 PM