In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
I am going to be transitioning the blog shortly to a Blogspot domain. The issue is mostly one of making my blog recession-proof -- if I can't afford my hosting fees due to unemployment, illness, or other bad thing happening, I'll still have a blog. More news on the rehosting front shortly...
-- Badtux the Pragmatic Penguin
Ground rules: Comments that consist solely of insults, fact-free talking points, are off-topic, or simply spam the same argument over and over will be deleted. The penguin is the only one allowed to be an ass here. All viewpoints, however, are welcomed, even if I disagree vehemently with you.
WARNING: You are entitled to create your own arguments, but you are NOT entitled to create your own facts. If you spew scientific denialism, or insist that the sky is purple, or otherwise insist that your made-up universe of pink unicorns and cotton candy trees is "real", well -- expect the banhammer.
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I hear ya, Tux. I just moved my blog off my own website and onto a wordpress.com site. My hosting contract was about to expire, and I couldn't justify re-upping with money as tight as it is.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused. You have a blogger URL, just like me. Mine is free.
ReplyDeleteIf I enter www.blogspot.com in the URL window, it takes me to my own blogger dashboard page.
What am I missing?
Cheers!
JzB the ignernt trombonist
You're missing the fact that when you typed "http://blog.badtux.net" you instead got "http://snarkypenguin.blogspot.com" ;-). I have set up badtux.net's URL rewriter to forward blog.badtux.net URL's to the Blogspot URL, though this functionality won't be there if I ever lose my hosting. Unfortunately Blogger lost my bookmarks in the process :(.
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Have you though about wordpress.com? Their blogging interface is a lot more advanced than Blogger's, and I'm pretty sure you could import all your posts into Wordpress. Food for thought...
ReplyDeleteI would lose all my Blogger comments if I moved to Wordpress. Besides, I've run Wordpress recently for another blog (which I won't disclose here ;) and found that Wordpress's interfaces do *not* allow me to do some of the things that I do with Blogger's interfaces. You need to know how to edit Blogger's CSS in order to do the fancy stuff with Blogger, but the free Wordpress hosting doesn't even *allow* you to edit the CSS. You have to pay extra money for that capability.
ReplyDeleteIn short, I'm staying on Blogger / Blogspot, since I am a bit of a CSS geek and the free Blogger setup allows me much more flexibility in my blog template and layout compared to the free Wordpress setup...
- Badtux the Blogging Penguin
True that, when I moved I lost all the customizations I had done to the Wordpress CSS on my own website. But hey, at least I'm not paying for that webhost anymore, especially since they were a crappy host and my site kept disappearing for hours (and occasionally days) at a time. IPower can eat me!
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