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the more it snows

mim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:08:41 +0000

the more I want to stay inside and play with geekery. Nearly ready to replace the old blogger blog now, just want to check some new bells and whistles actually work. Today, I am mainly checking my facebook widget.

My hand has been forced!

mim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:28:00 +0000

I’ve been wondering whether to get my finger out and blog more for ages, but now it looks like my hand has been forced.

I like running my own domain, rather than handing over the controls to my blog tool, but the choices are limited. Blogger has been OK, but they stopped adding cool stuff unless you go with their solution. I’ve been researching alternatives, and it looks like a full solution is the way to go if I want to continue having control.

And now, I get an email from blogger saying they’re withdrawing the service I use anyway. NO! Now I have to stop talking about it, and actually get it done.

Of course, given the vast number of posts I’ve made over the past year, I do wonder if it’s worth it at all. My micro-updates tend to be on Facebook, and by the time I’ve thought of something that’s actually worth writing about on here, I’ve forgotten or the moment has passed.

This is where I admire the Fakir – he still handrolls his own site, but more importantly he still bothers to update it, even if it is all about the odd films he’s watching.

So, watch this space for a nice sparkly new look, coming soon.

Blogger, Twitter, Facebook

mim — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:29:00 +0000

So many places to put updates. I’ve found that sometimes it’s easier to just dump something onto my Facebook status, when once I would take the time to come and update the blog. And then Twitter came along which confused things even more.

Should my Facebook status be more or less detailed than my Tweets? Should either hint at things that would be covered in more detail in the blog – if I ever wrote it?

And don’t even get me started on whether I should stick with self-hosted Blogger, or whether I should move onto something like Drupal or WordPress.

Either way, I’m going to be making more of an effort to keep this up to date. If Jim can manage it, I can.