No, I'm not giving up blogging, I'm giving up BLOGGER! For those who don't know, that is the platform this blog runs on. Over the last month or two the back end has had a number of problems. It was down for several days. There are intermittent problems with creating posts and commenting on them. I've heard from a number of people who have tried to comment and couldn't, and a couple who have gotten so frustrated that they said they aren't going to bother to try anymore.
Well, I don't have enough people who comment here to afford to lose any, so I've pulled up stakes and moved to the Wordpress platform. Hopefully it's more stable. I was able to import everything from here over there, so it should be cool. So please, if you link to me, or follow me, here are two new links, either of which will get you where you want to go for all the quality and life altering information I provide on a daily (almost) basis:
http://www.chrislatray.com
http://chrislatray.wordpress.com
My first new post is up over there. Here's the direct link:
http://chrislatray.com/2011/05/30/long-weekend-movie-extravaganza/
Oh, and I've changed from the Stumbling the Walk title to a more awesome, and pulpier, one: Naked But For a Loincloth. At least for now.
I'll keep leaving updates here when I put something new over there, for a while anyway, but I hope everyone makes the move with me. I'm not sold on the theme, and there are still some cosmetic changes to make, but at least it's up and running.
Thanks for reading! I hope it's worth it to you. . . .
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I'll add the new site to my blog feed. (Or perhaps this comment won't show up?)
Thanks, Cullen!
Look at that, the day you decide to move Blogger lets me leave a comment. I'll link you up but I may be joining you. I'll give it another couple of weeks to see if there are any improvements.
I tried following your new one, but all i got was another feed to this one.
I'll keep trying though.
I understand your frustration, Chris. I can't comment on over half my blogs I normally visit. I'm giving them another week or so and then I'm bolting.
Btw I'm on Twitter. Not sure what I'm doing but I'm there. I'm DavidCranmer1.
G, it's possible all the name server changes haven't passed all the way through the WWW yet. Give it a day or two and maybe it will sort it out; it hasn't even been 24 hours yet, and it can take upwards of 72.
Aw, C'mon man !!!
EVERY service tweaks their shit once and again !
Keep the faith !!!
OK, I found you over there. Not sure I've been able to successfully follow you yet. Keep us informed here how you like the new service. I'm noting the name change. "Naked" should get you more hits on google searches...
Chris, will do. After reading your comment I'd just remembered the same thing happened with another friend's blog when he switched to a custom domain.
How are finding Wordpress so far? I've had some of the same problems you've had with Blogger, including the recent big breakdown, but Wordpress is sometimes a pain in the ass to post to.
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Peter, I'm still getting a feel for Wordpress. So far I like it, but there are some things when it comes to posting things that either I like Blogger better, or I just haven't figured Wordpress out yet. I don't have any regrets for switching at this point, that's for sure.
Thanks. My one complaint about Wordpress is that it's iffy about accepting long URLs, or any URLs at all. That would be fine, except that it offers no notification to that effect. I've made any number of posts that did not appear because of this ... including, possibly, one I tried to make on your Wordpress blog. That's been the one thing that has stopped me from switching.
Long urls . . . like in a comment post? Hmm, haven't encountered that myself, but I don't know that I've ever even tried that.
Yes, in a comment.
Thing is, you'd have no way of knowing if you'd experienced it. I'd make a post, and get no message, not that comment modification had been enabled, not that my URL in my signature was too long, nothing. Sometimes I'd find out only when I'd ask the blogger about my post, and he or she would say, "What post?"
This has happened often enough over a long enough period of time from enough different computers that I have to believe it's a longstanding Wordpress quirk.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
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