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!

More snow. We had 2 inches when I left the house this morning and I stood in the freezing cold waiting for the bus, another 1/2 inch fell, some of it on me. I got on the bus and was caked with snow. Not fun. The commute was surprisingly good but then, I leave the house really early. The accountant, who comes in from further out, is still not here and she's called the boss lady to let her know she's going to be about another hour. I don't get it. If you knew it was going to be bad weather out, wouldn't you leave the house earlier? Maybe it's just me but that seems like the thing to do. Oh well.

First class went well. Looks like it's going to be an interesting course though it focuses more on western religions that I had expected (I thought it was going to be more of a mix). I like John and the class is a good size for discussion plus it sounds like most of the folks in there know what the hell they're talking about. Should be good. There is one girl at the front that pisses me off (and we had a short class yesterday). It's funny really. The prof is obviously not impressed and he shakes off her comments with little remarks that, to me, sound like he's trying to tell her that they're not appropriate. We'll have to see how it develops.

I had a big problem with some of the blogs yesterday. For some reason, nearly all of the blogs I visit regularly stopped working. Looked like it may have been a problem with google and all seems well now!

Other than that, things are fairly quiet. Hope everyone is having a good hump day!

On Crucial Platetary Preferences, Actor's Thoughts About

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

actor Jared Leto