Independence Day

First off, to those of us here in the states, happy Fourth of July! Perhaps you have been asking yourself; What happened to Memepunks? Where was last week's weekly robot update? What has science been up to lately?!

Things have been "afoot" behind the scenes here at Memepunks. We too will be celebrating our independence very soon. Memepunks is moving our operation to a legitimate web host in the coming week or so. After three months with our friends at blogger, it's time to move on. Although there were times when system slow downs and outages were frustrating, blogger performed above and beyond the call of duty for a free blog engine. Well done blogger, and thanks, we couldn't have gotten this far without you.

For our new host, we have chosen the cthulhu-esque logoed Laughing Squid. Their support is superb, and their services seem perfect for us. Also they have a blog of their own in which they cover things like BarCamp and the Robogames. Which means they must be an alright group of folks. For our new blog software, we are moving to WordPress. WordPress is an open source blogging engine that also happens to be the most popular self hosted blogging software on the planet. It's distributed under the time honored GNU-Gpl liscence, and came highly recommended by my friend and original Linux mentor Mick.

Hopefully this change in venue will issue in a new era of creativity and usability for Memepunks and our beloved readers. But this doesn't mean that we will be on hiatus until then. We will continue to blog about all sorts of future friendly ideas and strange or interesting stuff. I still owe you an extra WRU when all is said and done. Stay tuned to this space for the inside scoop on upcoming stem cell trails, synthetic meat, electronic interest detection, vat grown organs, and the Google Revolution. Special thanks to many of you for your kind words and e-mails. And of course to all of you... Thanks for reading Memepunks!

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