After over a year of silence, I'm blogging again! A lot has happened in the time I've been away, the most notable of which is probably the new look of the website. As you can see, I've abandoned my self-hosted WordPress blog in favor of a static blog hosted on Rackspace's Cloud Files. I did this for a number of reasons: Static HTML files load really fast over a CDN. Cheap VPS services generally don't have the best uptimes. The old WordPress blog had a 500 ms latency when loading it, probably ...