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I was planning on moving domains and launching the redesign after the holidays but I couldn’t wait. It turns out that moving a WordPress install from one domain to another is very easy and not as time consuming as I thought. In fact, the most time consuming part was setting up permanent redirects for all of the archives but even that took well under an hour.

Well, without further adieu I welcome you to Olson’s Observations at EricJohnOlson.com (yes, olson.com, ericolson.com and eolson.com were taken…). I made the move mainly because I wanted the site URL to be more meaningful and to grow with me as I move along in my career and life. The title of the blog just came to me but I am definitely open to suggestions if anyone has any.

Along with the move I thought it was time for a new look. I knew I wanted to choose a design with two right columns rather than one so I can better display my sidebar information. After searching for a while I found the Vertigo theme by Brian Gardner and decided that was going to be the new look. I planned on putting all of the usual info in my sidebar before launching the site but I decided to launch tonight and then fix up the sidebars and tweak the design a bit over the holiday break.

I hope you all enjoy the redesign and, as always, I would love to hear some feedback. Also, I would love if all the feed readers could check out the site when they get a chance (no need to worry, the feed address is the same so all of you don’t have to do anything to keep receiving my content).

Side Note: I am thinking about disbanding “Deal Flow” each week in favor of writing more about deals and new companies I find interesting. What do you all think of that?