Two down, two to go. Then I will be headed home. The list of things to accomplish over break is long, most of them are programming tasks. Actually, all of them are. Read more for a quick rundown.

So this blog has gone through some intense upgrades over the past week or two, but now everything is ready to go and I like it. New version of Wordpress. New layout & theme. And twitter updates on the front page.

Now it’s back to brainstorming features for the next round of updates. Ideas welcome!

Well I knew this would happen, but it still brings a tear to my eye. I have now(temporarily I hope) lost my spot as the top google search result when searching for “Micah Lee”. I have been patiently waiting as I’ve crept up on this Micah Lee Designs fella, who, incidently and foolishly, let the micahlee.com domain name out of his grasp some time back. Slowly but surely, micahlee.com(with me as its new owner) has crept up the rankings, until about a month ago when I finally took the top spot! Now, I purchased micahlee.net at about the same time, but until now it had simply forwarded to my primary site, merely existing as a placeholder for the Micah Lee web empire. But since it had to actual website behind it, it never even made an appearence in search results. So when I finally started paying for a real web host, and I realized how much possiblity was available to me now, I knew it was time to finally launch my proffesional site. Problem was: I knew it needed to be the .com domain. So with much sadness, I have wiped clean 6 months or so of Google page rank reputation and have started from scratch with both my .com and .net domain names. It’ll probably be some time before they reach a notable status again, but one day they will be restored.

But anyway, that’s enough of that. Without further ado, I now present to you the humble beginnings of the Micah Lee web empire:

• MicahLee.com - THE place to buy your web services from. It’s a one stop shop.
• MicahLee.net - I have a feeling you’ve heard of this one before. The personal blog of me!
• MicahLeeBand.com - This site has yet to see it’s heyday, but it’s coming. Hopefully soon.
• LaneBrownArt.com - Ok, so I don’t actually own this site, but I’m hosting it, and he’s good, so I’m adopting it into the empire.

So as part of a long term solution for my web sites, I have decided to move my blog to www.micahlee.net. This move is prompted by my plan to expand my web presence to include more business aspects, as a contract programmer and web developer/designer. With this in mind, I would rather use my commercial (.com) domain name for business and my more generic .net domain name for my personal site. Originally, I wasn’t going to make the move so soon, but rather get the business site developed first and then move. After some more thought, however, I realized that, while I don’t have all that many readers now, I need to plan for having more readers later, and If I waited to move the site, I could potentially disrupt more people trying to locate my blog than if I went ahead and moved now. Now, I realize that the six of you who read this blog are probably laughing that I put this much thought into moving, but this post is, in fact, for you six people. So be ready to point your browsers to micahlee.net on or around July 14 and you can keep reading about me as usual. Unless, of course, you want to hire me to do your programming, design, or web work. Then you should go to micahlee.com. I know I would hire me.