Welcome to the new and improved Xephalon 2.0! Almost 10 years after its inception, my website has long been overdue for an update. Of course, my decision to upgrade this time was actually not prompted by all that free time on my hand, but by rising hosting costs which had forced me to move the site to another hosting company and domain registrar. Of course, the transfer itself was not without its own set of issues and headaches. In the process, I’ve had to replace the antiquated Cutenews PHP script with the more popular and versatile WordPress content management system with MySql support. I’ve had to spend the past week manually converting the text-based database to the new format, which hopefully will be worth the time. So far, I’ve been pretty happy with the service at Go Daddy, although I was sad to lose IMAP e-mail support. With work and life becoming more busy, I’ve actually juggled with the idea of taking down the website all together. But for now, I’ll try to stick it out for a while longer.