A couple of notes about my new digs….
If you’re a regular visitor to my blog (and I’m not sure such a breed actually exists…), then you’ll notice how things have changed around here. My one year contract with Dreamhost expired, and I really wasn’t using the service enough to justify flushing another $100 down the drain to renew it. So I made the financial decision to move to a free blog service, and so, here I am at WordPress. Unfortunately, this means I’ve had to abandon a lot of my customizations to the skin I was using, as well as bidding a sad farewell to my random lyric widget. But, hey, not being broke is a good thing, right?
I probably could have imported or copied my older posts here, but I didn’t see much point in it. It’s not like I said anything of particular interest in that time. Besides, I’m looking forward to using this relaunch as a kind of fresh start. I actually want to start using my blog as if it were a blog, which means more regular posting and a more freewheeling style. For that, I don’t need the past hanging around my neck like an albatross.
On a related topic, I was bemused the other day when I found this Universe Today story linked from Slashdot’s main page. Here’s an excerpt for those who don’t care to read the entire article:
A team of researchers is proposing that massive quantities of dark matter formed dark stars in the early Universe, preventing the first generations of stars from entering their main sequence stage. Instead of burning with hydrogen fusion, these “dark stars” were heated by the annihilation of dark matter.
I’ve been using the blog name “Darkstar Rising” for over a year now, and the online nickname “Wildfire Darkstar” for considerably longer than that. But now I feel like I’m at the cutting edge of astrophysics. Plus, it gave me a new image header, which I personally think is a lot snazzier than the old solar eclipse image I used to use. Woo!
