Welcome, welcome! Now that I've settled in (some), I wanted to share more context about what compelled me to make this move to WordPress.

My previous blog host, Blog-City — and my old blog is still there and continuing to be migrated — had excellent support for a long time. I've written raves about them before. However, in recent months, they've had some downtime which made me really unhappy, in addition to some of my questions about said downtime uncomfortably deleted from their forums, and I needed longstanding feature adds which never happened:

• One of them being able to show FULL entries when paging through monthly archives instead of mere, nonstyled, ugly summaries. (This was promised for a long time, only to later find out it isn't possible.)
• Another is being able to load multiple pages at once without coming across an unhelpful and white blank screen — according to them, this happens if the servers detect more than 5 access requests from a certain IP at a given time.
• And yet another happened to be all the plugin functionality they lack, which of course, WordPress offers in spades.
• Realistically, I was missing out on gatewaying into greater things, like when Koz Farina asked about integrating the Blog-City API with blogHUD, but sadly, he didn't hear back. blogHUD is compatible with WordPress, and seeing as how I'm quite invested in Second Life, I can't be left behind.

I should also mention page rendering time felt pretty slow for me on Blog-City too. And I had to troubleshoot a problem myself involving RSS2 export not working properly.

So all in all, it was a question of progress which needed ot be answered. I'm thankful B-C provided an export facility, because WordPress allowed me to import almost all of my entries to my new blog!

And thus, I live on.

Apologies that the transition hasn't retained any comments. I asked around and there doesn't appear to be any easy way to bring those over. Also, some of the formatting is wonky: I've noticed center-aligned pictures are aligned to the left, bold passages have lost their styling, and if you're using Internet Explorer, converted apostrophes inexplicably show up as "apos". Ugh. Fortunately, I did find a search and replace plugin I may put to good use.

But, for the better, I'm here!