It’s my hope that if you’re reading this it’s because you’ve followed the redirection from my old home at wordpress.com. I hope that those of you kind enough to link to that site will update your links to here. *
As with any move, my attention at the moment is held by the bright shiny newness of it all, so it may be a day or two before I begin the usual reflective writing for which I am known across the prairies of the internet.
Let me tantalise you in the meantime by contending I have fewer than five thousand more words to write before my manuscript is complete: final draft, reading for final editing. Once I began, at the prompting of the señor and a friend or two, to move around large blocks of text, the thing began to take shape much as a puzzle might unexpectedly near completion. I am quite pleased with it, but that could be the result of a summer’s break.
*2249 ETA: I’ll also be cross-posting from here to my old LiveJournal (primarily just because I can), for those of you who prefer to read my entries there.
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Ooh, shiny! I’m here & will update my blogroll forthwith
hiya!
Hello! Thank you for the greetings. I’m not certain that everything is working yet, particularly the RSS feed, and it’s going to take me a while to sort out the comments. But it’s still exciting!
The RSS is is working. I have it in my feed reader already!
Hooray – happiness is your own domain name.
Yes indeedy. You were my trailblazer in this regard.
I’m a bit worried about re-matching all the entries to the categories again, but I’m hopeful some sort of magical solution will offer itself to that problem. Yesterday night I was fallen at the first php hurdle, so today it feels like everything is possible. (Thank you, bluehost.com!)
Gorgeous!
You must be geeky genius.
Blogroll updated.
Never underestimate the luck of a dumb innocent. It’s been so long since I’ve tried to do something like this where I’ve had to figure it out as I go along. The WordPress.Org pages have a little footer that says “Code is Poetry”. I may have muttered against this a few times in the last thirty-six hours (which is permitted, I assert, with a PhD in poetics).
Good-oh! Congratulations. Having ones own domain name and hosting lends such an air of distinction to a blog, don’t you think?
The actual harvestbird.com homepage still seems to be pointing at a placeholder or default though…
…whole lotta love…
Stephen: yes, the page itself is pointing to a placeholder. I haven’t fixed that yet as I want to use the server space for many things under the one domain. I will try and shift it to point at the blog in the meantime.
2208 ETA: The domain name now points to the blog.
merc: aw, thanks [I been learnin']. I was a bit worried no-one was going to come over with me!
Ohhh… a thing of beauty. Am very torn – to subscribe by email, or via RSS. Then again, why not both?
The middle child is currently staging an insurrection, the updating of blogroll and links will have to wait until the morrow.
(The Compendium tab… I am honoured.)
Thank you. Isn’t the theme wonderful? I paid USD for it, which felt very extravagant, but it is just so fine-looking.
Concerning RSS/Email: why not have your cake and have it too (and even eat it, if you wish)?
I hope to expand the Compendium in future!
Oh my: it is all going on. I must say, you have done very well.
It all sort of fell into place, although getting things set up didn’t quite feel like that. I’d owned the domain name for a while (a birthday gift from the good señor) and knew I wanted to use this theme/design, so it seemed opportune to get some server space and take it from there. I don’t think I realised setting things up was going to be quite such a challenge for me, but it still only talk forty-eight hours because the Internet Never Sleeps.