Step 1) Register the doman:  easy enough, fork over some cash and make some DNS changes and bam! babler.us

Step 2) Email: This is a 2-part process which I haven’t even completed yet.  First step is to get email working.  Easy enough, my webhost’s control panel lets you setup a google apps account with your new domain as easy as can be.   The second part is a little harder, migrating your email.  There is good news and bad news here.  The good news is that there is a program that makes it pretty easy.  The bad news is getting the program working is a big pain in the butt.  I got most of my old email moved over, but my chats and sent mail didn’t get moved so I need to revisit it (which will require about and hour of reconfiguring software).  I also need to help Lisa get her old email moved over.

Step 3) Calendar:  Again pretty easy.  Google calendar has an interface to export all your calendars into a zip file.  Each calendar is in .ics format which is pretty standard these days.  No problems moving from one google calendar to another.

Step 4) Blog: a bit more complex (especially when the software is bugged).  So I knew I wanted some software that could handle multiple blogs.  I knew that I wanted a joint blog, but I also wanted to be able to have sub-blogs for various what-have-you.  I did some research and decided to go with mu-Wordpress (MU stands for “multi-user” but is pronounced “μ” or “mew”).  It installed just fine and I was able to navigate around as admin just fine but i ran into problems when I started trying to add users.  It seems I happened across some bugs, but eventually managed to work my way around it, and I think they’re next release will have the fix.  In the meantime, I think I only need 2 users, Lisa and myself, so I don’t think I’ll have many problems working around that one.  and wpmu seems to be what I need for managing multiple blogs.  Since Lisa’s blog is a WordPress blog i should have no problems migrating her.  But we haven’t gotten to that yet, maybe this weekend.

Step 5) Documents: This one is a little tougher, though I haven’t really done it yet.  I think there is a program that can sync up your google documents with a local folder and verse-visa, I’ll have to check that out.

Step 6) put something on the actual homepage.  yeah, I haven’t even begun to think about this one.