We-ell…if Sarah Palin has the decency and candor to come clean and let the people of Alaska know that they need a change if they’re going to get their money’s worth…I think the nobodies who never make time to not stop by and not read The Blog That Nobody Reads, are deserving of the same decency. I think we could handle this behind the scenes, make it invisible, take the veil-over-the-statue approach, but what’s the point. I don’t see the upside. Might as well spill the beans now.

We’re moving.

For the last three years, we’ve been squatting on Terry “Trip” Trippany’s domain, which he runs as one of his many pursuits. You may know him from his Newsbusters column. Back in the summer of ’06, he approached us about the idea of converting to WordPress, which we’d already been thinking about for quite some time because we were on Blogger. As an added bonus, he offered to do the hosting duties as well, which is more than what it sounds like. He does a very able job of not only keeping things going, but enabling countermeasures against the sampbots, the beasties, the hackers, the vandals…et cetera. We’ve been thrilled to benefit from such a capable hand in this. Plus, in response to those who come asking, we’ve been able to say we get our hosting services from a real fan. He approached us because he liked our stuff. We like the shop he runs. It’s been a good match.

Well, there’s some money involved in this, which has been coming out of his wallet instead of ours. That never was fair, and with the economy the way it is, it’s no longer workable. It’s not like we’re being kicked out, the fact of the matter is Trip is spread thin.

We already have another domain. Had it for a few years now. The bottleneck here, has been — nothing but — our huge fat ass and the attendant laziness associated therein. So now we got a deadline.

Knowing how well I work under pressure, along with how the inertia in my ass works, my crystal ball says…and this is just a best-guess…we’ll probably have a practice run this weekend, followed by an actual cutover the weekend after that, worst-case scenario. That’s my rough-ball-park timeline. I think. I know, you’re just in awe at my sense of certainty. I are an experienced projek manager, don’t forget.

Anyway, now you know what we know. We’ll try to make it as smooth a shift as possible. But one other thing that’s gonna be absolutely certain…the URL is going to change. Sorry ’bout that. But it’s okay…there’s only one coffee mug that has ever been manufactured with this old link, which is at work as I write this (pictured, to the right). That’ll be my private collector’s item.

Wish us luck. And let us know if you have any extra cardboard boxes.