I hated it when I picked it, but for whatever reason I took it and now I'm stuck with it. Changing a domain name seems to cause Google to forget all about you. Sigh.
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The comment login system is acting strange. If you get an error message saying you aren't logged in when you are, just reload the comment page and try again. I'm trying to track this bug down, but it's not easy.
Supposedly a 301 redirect is seen by Google as a permanent move of the same content. So if you can modify your old (or, right now, current) site's .htaccess file to redirect anything from the old domain to the new URLs using a 301, Google should know that you moved, and will know that links to the old stuff are actually about the new pages from now on (so your "Google juice" is preserved). This doesn't work 100% perfectly every time, but I think it's the most reliable thing to do.
And what's wrong with your domain name?
BM: A single redirect from the old domain to the new would do the trick, as long as the file structure underneath stayed the same?
As for my current name, eehhhh, I don't like the .info TLD for one thing. I don't know. It just grates on me. Do you think it's ok?