There's nothing quite like seeing two sunsets.

After 11 years and 1,227 posts, I've finally migrated my site from the venerable Nanoblogger over to the far more capable (and much, much faster) Nikola.

Nanoblogger did everything I needed, but it simply wasn't intended to scale anywhere near the size of my old site -- I believe I had the dubious distinction of the largest Nanoblogger instance, with about 8 times as many posts as the next-largest deployment. Posting a new photo would take upwards of ten minutes, and a full site rebuild would take multiple hours. Compare that to a full rebuild taking only a few minutes with Nikola. :)

The final step was to enable comments via Hashover, though I have yet to migrate the old comments over to the new layout. I expect the general look and theme to change a bit before I'm satisfied, but everything important is now functional!

The old site will stay up for the foreseeable future but the base URL now permanently redirects here. Anyone following via RSS will need to point at the new site or category feeds.

Oh, In case there's anyone else interested, I wrote this script to migrate the Nanoblogger posts over to Nikola's format. This was made vastly easier by my switching to markdown formatting a few years ago.

This has been on my to-do list for years now. Better late than never, eh?

The morning looked promising, bot as the sky brightened, fog lifted off the fields and obscured pretty much everything. By the time the sun cleared the treeline, there wasn't much to see.

Welcome to 2016, folks!

(Taken at the Wallaby Ranch -- many more photos coming, once I have sufficient bandwidth...)

...right next to Slaughter Mountain, overlooking Lake Trahlyta at the heart of Vogel State Park, Georgia.

Interestingly enough, neither mountains' name has anything to do with White Man, instead owing its name to a particularly heated disagreement between the Cherokee and the Creek.

Charles Springs, just off the Suwanee River.

This moment was, in a word... perfect.

This was about 30 minutes into a total eclipse. It was fairly hazy, but at least it was visible!