Thanks to all of those who have updated their links to the new site. (For those of you who read this site via a Newsreader, you should also remember to change to our new XML feed, linked in the sidebar).

Dan Solove is investigating what legal remedies we may have against the new resident of our old domain. I asked around at Ask Metafilter without getting much help.

As Will mentioned below, our old domain was purchased by a Search Engine Optimizer intent on taking advantage of the Google juice we've built up over the past few years of blogging. Fortunately, this sort of behavior does not have to be rewarded. The more people who update their links to the new site, the less value bottom-feeders such as the new owner of our old domain get from their behavior.

If you're blogging in Movable Type, there's a handy Search and Replace function that will let you update any link to our blog in one fell swoop. Just click on the search tab (first under utilities in MT 3.2) search for crescatsententia.org, and then hit the radio button that says search and replace. In the replace box, type in crescatsententia.net, check all of the entries that appear in the search results, and hit the replace button. After that, you'll need to rebuild the entries you updated for the changes to appear on your site, but all of the links will now work just as they did before.

It takes less than five minutes, and you'll get that warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from making life harder for peddlers of barely legal lesbians and herbal viagra.

And please, please, spread the word. WWW.CRESCATSENTENTIA.NET

Pictures below to clarify the process:

In honor of our (forced) move here, I'm going to do an update on a weekly post I used to write when I was still a law student - "What Raffi Ate this Week" (see this post, for example). But without belaboring the point, my morning and evening commutes are generally on different days, so my cooking has been suffering somewhat. I last cooked at home on October 13 (crispy chicken breast sauteed in butter, with tarragon sea salt). The work's great. But the hours are going to make me eat my words about the frozen peanut butter and jelly moms.

So what have I been eating? The one great discovery is that when you're working late, there's a complex art to ordering enough food to get you through the night. That pizza might be tasty, but what you really need is the salad, and the four waters, and the bag of apples, and the small cake. It's especially true when you're the kind of person for whom nice food makes the day. The late night cake is a real incentive to keep things moving. And a chocolate peanut butter smoothie buys me at least an hour of content typing and thought.

But more specifically, for New Yorkers, I really have to recommend Bread and Olive, a lebanese style place in Midtown West. Generally, it's pretty good middle eastern food. Weaker desserts than Akdeniz (Akdeniz has a canonical khadaif, the pistachio/shredded wheat dessert my Syrian background has genetically engrained). But, hidden on the menu where most americans wouldn't notice it, is one of my favorite foods - labne (a dried yogurt spread) and zaatar on a fresh crust with olives. That is, a souped up version of maneish.

It's probably not too good to order from one place too often. But if you put maneish on the menu, you're going to get my business. Bread and Olive should get yours too.

In September, without my knowledge or consent, our old domain was purchased by a Search Engine Optimization firm that intends to make money by either reselling the domain for a pretty penny to somebody greedy for its pagerank, or by using that pagerank to sell links to sites eager to trick Google. The webpage up there now is not this blog (it's an old cache that he will have to take down soon), and this blog is the current and future home of crescat.

Because of the switcheroo, I can't post a notice over there telling everybody where we've gone, so we're reliant on people updating their blogrolls, and on word of mouth. With your help, hopefully we can minimize the disruption this has already caused.

I thought about taking this as a sign that it was time to turn in and give up, but I think this whole episode was a vindication of some principle like loss aversion. I'm not ready to go yet, and when I am, it will be on other terms.

Please, please, spread the word. WWW.CRESCATSENTENTIA.NET.

This is the first post at Crescatsententia.net. I'll explain, very shortly, why we're here.