FRQNC


Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Good Lord...the walls are coming down around here. A scant 24 hours after upgrading my comment system, I received an email from Blogger stating that they are "no longer going to support publishing via FTP." Which, of course, is the way I've been publishing since I bought the www.meatyefreeti.com domain forever ago... It seems that less than 1% of active blogs are published the way that I do it, which I find to be both interesting and a little disheartening. Interesting because FTP used to be the ONLY way you could host a blog on your own site and still use Blogger's software. This would be back in the days of yore, when having a web presence meant you had to know at least a little HTML. (Read as: before MySpace began hosting the most horrific webpages ever created.) I learned a lot about directory pathing, file naming, and lots of other technical gobbledygook, simply from tweaking the template in this very blog. And while we're zooming along in the Wayback Machine, I was one of the few who actually paid Blogger a long time ago for the privilege of using their "Blogger Pro" service. Just so no one who came to my site would have to suffer the hideous ad banner that used to reside at the top of the screen. Yes, I was Blogger before Blogger was Google. It's disheartening because I certainly don't want to allow Google to pepper my site with AdSense banners. And I'm quite happy hosting my own files on my own site. Alas, February 22nd will be the final day they'll allow this to happen. So I'm a little torn here. They claim that there will be a way to convert things over to their new publishing system...but I'm not so sure I want to give them that ability. (Perhaps I'm being a control freak, but it's my blog, on my site, that I pay for. I don't think it's unreasonable to want it set up MY way.) So...I'm faced with another dilemma. The last time this happened, I migrated from www.meatyefreeti.com over to www.frqnc.com. Perhaps it's time for another move. A whole new design. All new stuff. (Although to be honest, I still like the simplicity of black text on a white background, so I doubt a lot will change in that regard.) I already own jeremiahshaw.com, as well as smokinggnu.com. (I set up my annual Christmas ~~scavenger hunt~~ list on that last one...although it seems the jigsaw puzzle applet has been removed. When it rains it pours.) Hell, I even own jeremiahandSobriquet.com. But I was in the midst of putting a simple wedding site together there...the last thing I want to do is migrate my blog to a new site and to new blogging software. sigh Guess I'll figure something out... j.s.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010