Are Seven

As you can see by the rash and sudden paint job of the blog, things are different. Squirreliness is still afoot, but slightly less manic. Hopefully.

I’ve now gone to Wordpress from Blogger, and I’m still pretty unsure about it. I’m now my own personal one-man IT department, which has the silver lining of teaching me some stuff I need to know about domain and server configuration, but the big dark cloud is that I now, when things go wrong, I have to figure what’s going on.  The Wordpress geeks are exactly the sorts of IT folks that drive me nuts.  Everything is sponsored by that sick, overused word of the tech word: “simply”.  You simply upgrade the software when a security patch comes out, and you simply backup your SQL database, and you simply figure out what’s going wrong when it goes wrong.  It all sounds so goddamn simple, but it adds up and eats into the time that I could spend actually writing.

So why did I do it?  Well, partly for the experience, but mostly because it seemed as though the Wordpress platform was more capable of doing exactly the sorts of things that I wanted to do with categories; that I could write in one place and let the software sort it out.  There’s still a number of challenges to be dealt with here, not in the least of which is the search engine gunk, but, to quote the Pixies, it’s educational.

Let me know if anything isn’t working right.  If you’re RSS reader or blog link is still pointing to a blogspot address, you’ll need to update it, because that’s not going to be updated anymore.  I’ll take you on a tour of the new digs once the boxes are unpacked. It’ll be a housewarming party.  BYO moonshine.

As my friend Alphonse would always say: onwards and upwards.

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