i’ve moved myself over to alexhixon.com, because it makes much more sense for me to have a personal domain instead of using anything else. as such, i’ve also brought my blog across.

i was using Wordpress, but I’ve decided to switch to this cool little blogging software based on Django called ‘cx‘. it’s certainly minimalistic, which is one reason why i love it. also, a lot less security issues than wordpress, haha. no more upgrading every other week! it does have some neat things out of the box, like last.fm and del.icio.us integration (which i’ve just signed up to, by the way) and supports Askimet.

there was zilch documentation, however. i’ve started putting this into my own personal Bitbucket repository (a really cool Github-like service for us Mercurial users, by the way). i’ll be trying to push it back into the original repository. plus, it didn’t work on my machine because Etch comes with Python 2.4 rather than 2.5, so some things like the wp-import script needed some adjusting. nor did it work with Django trunk (or versions < 1.0).

so, anyway, you can email me by saying hi to alex at alexhixon dot com, too (since i’ve got this shiny new domain)! my old email address should still forward fine — you can use that too.

No, I’m not dead (yet). Haven’t had as much time as I’d have liked to blog.

Expect a few entries this/next week from me.

For those of you who honestly couldn’t give a crap - don’t bother reading on. No, seriously. It’s pretty dull.

Just a quick update - I’ve recently updated the A records for the main mediati.org domain and a few subdomains, including mail.mediati.org, to point to the Xen server I have had running for a while now. Some notes:

• I will be moving blogs and wiki tomorrow, so don’t fear if you get a whole bunch of 404s (read: do not celebrate too early).
• SVN is not affected (for those checking out code) - it’s been hosted here for a long time now.
• The DNS will remain to be hosted on the MediaTemple server where Mediati was originally hosted - this’ll eventually get moved over too.
• My mail server setup is a bit shonky, so, if you get bouncing mails, try to resend them after a few hours/days.
• Yay for Debian Etch!

The new server is hosted on Chris Lamb‘s non-profit Xen server (via Bytemark), so that’s pretty awesome. I’ve got a (reasonably) beefy 2x Xen instance going, hosting mediati among a few other domains. Honestly, having complete control over the software thats installed on the server makes life much, much easier.

Possibly a sign of things to come: mediati.org (all but SVN), ayhja.com and few other domains with client hosting were down, needed to login to Plesk to manually restart the VPS. Apparently had been like that the majority of the day. Great. Just great.