Yeah, the new web host I was trying didn’t work out. While pings and loading times were great, there was a variety of problems that all combined to make for a rather irritating experience. One of which was the fact that PHP was being run in CGI mode instead of as an Apache module, which blows more goats than New Zealand has sheep. They also didn’t give enough memory to the PHP process so half of my PHP script operations were bombing with error 500s. Since I don’t know how much memory my scripts need, and I didn’t feel like fighting over it, I left.

So, obviously, if you’re seeing this post, you’re seeing the new server. Additionally, I have started playing with the integrated image gallery module and have got some random images rotating on the content sidebar over there. Lack of process memory was preventing me from setting that up on the other host, because every time I’d try to save the change to the template code it would die horribly and I’d lose everything. Anyway, I plan to get some more images added as time progresses, as well as build a real link to the gallery proper, but for the time being you can see a collection of pictures I took using Gran Turismo 4’s various photo modes. They’re pretty cool.

I also noticed that the integration of a second weblog into this page was causing my “Topics of Discussion” links to no longer work correctly, so I’m going to try to get that straightened out, too. I, uh, “de-integrated” the two weblogs while I work on fixing it, so those links are kosher again for the time being.

Update: Re-integrated the second weblog and fixed the topic links. Turns out I’d already created the fix, just hadn’t implemented it. Go me.