I had a feeling it was coming, and it did.  My web host turned off my account suddenly yesterday.  I've managed to find a new host (GoDaddy.com) and get a few things set up but it'll be a long while before everything is tweaked to my liking.  I've lost most of my old content.  It may be recoverable but I don't know that I have the energy to do it.

Part of the problem is that I'm switching from WordPress (a Linux application) to blogengine.net (an ASP.net application) and the data formats are not easily compatible.  The reason for the switch is mainly that I want to experiment with an ASP.net web site.  WordPress worked well and was mostly easy to mantain and had lots of community support.  blogengine.net is newer, has less support thus far, but since it runs on ASP.net, I'm hoping that creating widgets and customization will be easier.  Time will tell.  One immediate problem was that GoDaddy runs ASP.net application at Medium trust level, which meant that I had to find a modified version of blogengine.net (http://www.van-zand.com/ModPack/).  Problem solved and here we are today.

I should be packing right now.  I'm headed up to San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference.  I don't usually go to these things because you can't learn anything immediately useful in a one hour lecture and three days is a lot of valuable production time lost.  However, rather than hoping to learn something, I'm hoping to see something inspiring this year.  The realist side of me says that even if I am inspired, I can't apply that inspiration to my work because deadlines and production pipelines won't allow for it.  Nobody likes a realist though, not even the realist.