Today's an exciting day for gurBlogs and Room Eight. We just finished migrating to our new host, the Media Temple gridserver. The gridserver is a fairly new hosting technology (which Tech Crunch reviews here). Unlike traditional shared hosting environments, where multiple sites are hosted on one server, the gridserver is just that: a grid of multiple servers that function as one collective host.

The best part about the grid is that it enables sites to pay-as-they-grow; and to withstand unforseen spikes in traffic. And for starters, we're paying about a tenth of what we were paying on our previous vps. Love it!

Just thought I'd share.

We did it because ... well ... we just couldn't let slip the idea that our governor-elect was soliciting ideas from the people (a good move) - but then just reprinting them back to us (a tad lame). What's the use of this whole technology bit - if you don't push it to the nth degree, or at least to Day One, 2004?

If everything's going to change on Day One, 2007 - I hope that everything includes Eliot's interactions with the blogosphere as well. There's a real opportunity for Eliot to revolutionize the meaning of government entirely.

And for that, we shall see!

So, I've been meaning to write a few thoughts about this LunchBox thing for a while... but have been otherwise disposed.

Last month, Room Eight (my utha blog) launched this daily 3-minute satirical vlogcast about New York politics (aka LunchBox). Not only did it mark my foray into the vlogosphere but separately, also proved to be quite a departure from Room Eight's standard, more insiderish fare.