New Location, New Price

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I am moving my website from GoDaddy (who was charging ~$7 a month) to a free service. I decided this was better because it would allow me to continue this blogging effort without worrying about interruption (which has happened recently).

I will be fixing links and a bunch of other things as I can. More to come soon!

James

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