2010-03-23
say what?
Well, I've been here sporadically and honestly only popped in today to mention that this blog is in no way affiliated with the new movie, Love and Other Drugs. I have nothing against the movie and might even see it as I'm fond of the stars, but I've been using Love and Other Drugs as a blog for years now and used it as a sign off on email and letters for years before that. I know there's nothing new under the sun, but when I heard the title, I did feel like someone had stolen it from me. True, the original phrase I used on those pre-blog emails and letters was the more robust Love and Other Strange Drugs, but I thought it was too long for a URL. Since then, I've grown quite used to the shortened version...which is now a movie title.
So, I popped in tonight to mention the above and discover that Blogger, my publishing interface, is migrating away from FTP as a method of publishing and wants me to migrate my "blog" to some new address. This rather sucks for me since I have a bit more here on the site than just entries and archives. What I think it means, though I'll have to do some more investigation to confirm that I'm not making a mountain out of an anthill, is that I'll need to go to another blog client or figure out how to publish via old school FTP.
Either of those choices would be a bit of a pain in their own way. I've heard horror stories about the former in which folks lose much of what they once had in neat blog form. As for the latter, I'd lose the convenient interface and be forced to take a few more steps with an FTP client, but it ought to be doable on the rare occasions I want to pop up a photo or a random thought. We'll see, they've delayed the official turn off date until May 1st...which gives me at least a few weeks to ponder...or procrastinate.Labels: blogging, dose of mikey
* posted by me at 11:55 PM
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