The day has finally come. I’ve been putting it off for at least a month now, but I have, finally, just switched off my old blog and set the domain – attackhamster.co.uk – to redirect here. I’ve been putting off for so long because I’m actually quite sad about it, the old site was the entire result of my own hard graft and I was very proud of my work. For posterity’s sake, and for anyone reading this who didn’t see the old site, I have attached a screen grab to this post.

Unfortunately it was the ever increasing complexity of the old site that spurred the change. I was writing it completely by hand in raw XHTML and CSS and updating was a chore, especially once I decided to do more complex things with the photos, and that was putting me off posting as much as I would like. I had been thinking about switching to a CMS for some time and then I found out about WordPress through work and as I began to play around with it I started to really like it and how it works. So, about six weeks ago, I started to quietly set up my new home here and export the content from attackhamster – and now it’s ready.

Why the change of name? Well, it was spurred by the fact that some rotten, miserable little sod has already registered attackhamster on WordPress. I was able to get ‘theattackhamster’ but I wasn’t entirely satisfied with that so I started to think about alternatives and new names. I have been using attackhamster for a very long time after all, it’s time for a change.

Err… that said of course, I have no intention whatsoever of giving up my domain. Aside from the fact that I have an associated email package – and there are more people with @attackhamster email address than you would think – I fully reserve the right to completely change my mind in X number of months / years, as my fancy takes me.