Hi! How ya been? I've been fine, thanks for asking. Bit busy, you know. That whole having a job, family, TEDxRochester thing can really impede one's ability to do the things they like to do. So, I dumped the one that was taking the most time. :)
Okay, dumped is probably not the best word. "Backed away from" probably works better. That thing was a lot of work, and it finally got to the point that it was either I stop doing it, or never get to do anything *I* wanted to do ever....
...like keep a blog updated with my ramblings and instructions and such.
"Ew, but BLOGGER? Why would you move it to Blogger?"
For the last few years, I've run this blog on Wordpress running on my own VM in Amazon's cloud, and it's worked for the 20-30 hits/year I typically get, but if I wanted to have a few more folks visit, I decided it was probably time to let those that know how to host a blog host the blog.
I started by setting it up on wordpress.com. I got the blog setup in minutes, and since I didn't use a ton of plugins on the old site I just exported it and imported it in minutes. And, when I refreshed the page, I was told the blog was suspended for violating community guidelines. They provided a link to said guidelines in the message, but I ain't got no porn and ain't advocating armed overthrow of the government, so could I get a bit more detail? Nope. Just a quick email two days later saying "I looked, you're good".
Too late. I'd already decided to start moving to Tumblr, as I follow a bunch of things on there, but needed to move my old stuff, too. Found a few ways to do it, most of which entailed migrating first to Blogger and then using another tool to migrate to Tumblr. However, once I was on Blogger, I saw they'd really upped the usability for it. I had a couple of old blogs out there that I hadn't maintained in a few years, and so was able to pull them into one big aggregate anyway. It was easy, and provided what I wanted, so here we are.
No comments:
Post a Comment