Wonderful mooring overlooking the River Weaver

Moored near Aston Bridge, Trent & Mersey Canal

Blogger.com have decided to kick out people like me who host their blog themselves..

“FTP publishing will no longer be available after 01 May 2010
You currently have blogs that are published using FTP. You must migrate your blogs to a new custom domain URL or a blogspot URL.”

Oh no I won’t thankyou very much.  I suppose I am of the old school, I like to be in control and have my files on MY server not on Google’s.  There is no change for all of you that use blogspot, just people like me.  Google want to keep everyones files on their servers.

It would never happen, but a scenario, if someone blew Google up then everyones blog on blogspot would blow up too, never to be retrieved.. so don’t forget to backup your blog posts once in a while!

Anyway, I have taken this opportunity to move to WordPress.  I rather like WordPress, it is going to be much easier for me to publish blogs.  I won’t bore you with the whys.

On another note.. it’s all happening.. The lovely haloscan commenting system that I have been using for quite a number of years has been bought out by another company called Echo, I hate it!

I have designed the template now on WordPress, I doubt you will see much difference between what you are seeing now, I decided not to go for something different, I have grown rather fond of what I have..

OK, so it will mean a change of url, bookmark, news feed etc, but it will be worth it I promise you, and I will be much happier doing my blogs.

I’ll try and change it all over this weekend, watch this space!

5 Responses to “Wonderful mooring overlooking the River Weaver”

  1. Bill Rodgers Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Don’t worry, Sue. It’ll take alot more than a little change of URL to loose your dedicated fans. I’m glad you plan on keeping you site as it is. I follow many blogs and your blog is one of the best looking and easiest to read.

  2. Mark Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    Seems like you’re a busy bunny then.

    Its so nice to hear that old pensioners can find ways to while away the long hours………. :razz:

    Take Care

  3. Debs Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    Oh why do people have to interfere!!
    I have been following your blog for 2 years now,and ENJOY everything about it. So glad that you are so computer literate and can cope and bypass these busy-bodies! Keep up the good work.

  4. Jaqueline Almdale Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    Good on you Sue for staying in control of your information. If everyone opted to park their info in Googles “Cloud” server, I fear at some point we would lose ownership of it. As it is companies mine our personal data for whatever they can market to somenoe else. Thanks for staying true to yourself and for blogging regularly.
    Jaqueline Almdale
    Pullman WA USA

  5. Sue Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    Many thanks for your encouraging comments. There are some images I want to use which I am waiting for permission to use.. copywrite.. before I can move over, plus the comment system is still stuck with this stupid echo company, until I can get all the comments out of their clutches and into mine or we will have to go with no past comments

    Sue

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