Still alive and move progress
Whew… Takes a long time to configure a new server. I have pretty much everything as I need it. The server is setup that all I need to do is add a domain and it is good to go right away. The only other thing I would need to do is migrate dns information and modify the nameserver list at my registrar.
In other news I have updated WordPress to 3.0 (finally) as well as several plugins. I have also disabled openid. The reason is because the plugin doesn’t actually work anymore on WordPress 3.0. It fails to do registration. Janrain Engage plugin appears to be a feasable alternative but it is already reported to be broken and the compatibility is 3.0 or newer… 
Anyways that still doesn’t take care of the fact that I also used this blog for authentication at a few places so I need to create a new openid end point that I can use. Something integrated in wordpress is preferred.
Update: One of my themes have updated and it looks quite nice so I switched over to that for a change of pace. I can get HTML validation rather easily but not CSS. At this point I don’t really care about that anymore but the nice little IE6 alert is staying put since that browser has plenty of security holes anyways.
As for Janrain goes… I probably won’t be using that at all. Still probably won’t be using that.
If anyone wants a demo of the speed for the new site you are welcome to check it out. It is the minefield site so it can change at will.
WordPress bleeding edge: http://www.esminefield.net/wordpress/
SMF 2.0 RC: http://www.esminefield.net/smf2/
Last but not least when I setup the site again I’ll likely do it fresh but I’ll restore the actual data from here to the new site. :p
Awesome post! Your writing is so fresh in comparison to most other writers. Thanks for writing when you do, I will be sure to keep visiting!