It's been nearly 24 hours of crazyness but I think it's finally done.

After nearly a two week wait for iTunes to approve Before the Dawn, I decided to do a little checking around as to what the problem may be. Turns out the bloody feed didn't validate. More reading uncovered a problem with the feed which seems to stem from the fact that we were hosting the show on a free Blogger account. After a little hair pulling and mulling over the possible ways around the problem, I decided to bite the bullet and buy some web hosting.

After a bit of research, I decided on Host Papa, a Canadian company which prides itself on being "Green". They're packages seem reasonable, they've come very highly rated and to boot, they were very friendly and helpful with the initial set-up. The process of re-directing DNS servers, installing and customizing WP and getting everything transferred over took much less time than I expected and rather than being up and running next week, we're up and running now - less than 24 hours since I made the decision to move. As a nice bonus, disruption on the domain was minimal (10 minutes at the most). I must admit, I'm very impressed with myself.

Though to the reader the site looks almost identical (just a few minor differences I doubt anyone will notice), the back-end is completely different. Thankfully, I'm fairly familiar with WP and things are running fairly smoothly now. There are still a few minor glitches to deal with (mostly on the theming side) but otherwise, we're set to go. The new, now validated feed has been re-submitted to iTunes and I'm hoping they'll respond before we record the show on Saturday.

Something to consider now is that this new host allows for unlimited domains which means I could finally make use of one of the domains I've had registered and bookmarked for a personal site for over a year. We'll see if I finally break down and convert!

Yes, it's true. I have a new project.

As regular visitors may know I have a love for all things "Twilight" and what better way to share the love than to talk with another fan about the universe I love so much? I got in touch with Shannon, The Movie Moxie who regularly posts about film on her own blog, and asked her if she'd be interested in my little project as so Before the Dawn was born. The site has been up (though under wraps) for about a week but we recorded our first show this weekend and it's now up!

Be sure to head on over and take a listed to the show and if you like it, subscribe and share with friends! Here's looking ahead to many more fabulous shows!