I love my blog. We’ve been through a lot together. Confusing license plates. Baby future astronauts from the past. Appliance porn.
Good times all.
But, alas, those times have ended. Why? Because I broke up with my blog, man.
It wasn’t the blog. It was me.
Okay, fine: between us, it was the blog. What can I say? I just … outgrew her.
Up until now, I have been blogging on a WordPress.com blog. But as of around 3:30 a.m. this past Friday, I’m blogging on a self-hosted WordPress.org blog.
Can you believe how different the two are?
Right. Me, neither. My new blog is exactly like my old one. Which is kind of the point; it means the switch-over was perfectly successful.
Whoo-hoo!
The good news is that my brand-new same old blog can do things my WP.com blog couldn’t. The bad news is that I have to figure out how to make those new and exciting things happen. The good news is that I will. The bad news is that doing so will mean having to read computer manuals. The good news is … well, there’s just nothing good about that.
But it’ll sooooo be worth it. I will soon, for instance, be launching a whole new system for managing my blog’s comments. The program I’ll be using is Intense Debate. You’ll love, love, love it. You’ll be able to rate comments, and comment straight from your email, and get an email alert when someone responds to your comment, and … all like that. I can’t wait. I’m insane over it.
Stay tuned for other brand-new bloggy goodness.
For now, please do me a favor. If, in perusing around this blog, you come across a link that doesn’t work, or find anything weird going on with it at all (I mean, besides the usual weirdness that goes on here: technical weirdness, I mean), please do let me know, so that I can fix it. Thanks!
And thanks, as ever, for your readership.
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