After more than 2 years benefiting from Adrian Miles’ idea to set up a network of new media studies related blogs at hypertext.rmit.edu.au, I’ve decided to move to my own domain and server (almost at the same time as Mel did). I want to publicly thank Adrian for answering all my newbie questions about wordpress and secure ftp and goodness knows what else, and although I’m moving off the network, I’m still in the neighbourhood.

I was going to muck around with new templates and directories and things before making the announcement, but in the process of ftp-ing all over the place I somehow broke the .htaccess file at the old server. I couldn’t fix it and the old blog was horribly, horribly broken – so I ended up just writing a new .htaccess file with nothing but the following permanent redirect thingy in it: Redirect permanent /~burgess https://creativitymachine.net

Which will hopefully redirect all permalinks (i.e. google searches) permanently to this new domain. I can’t believe it worked, I feel like a hacker.

You’ll still need to update your bookmarks and feed subscriptions though.