Server Madness

I've had to move hosts AGAIN.

Expect many things to be broken... I'll fix stuff when I have a chance.

Server Migration Semi-complete

My old host disappeared off the face of the earth with NO NOTICE.

Thanks to the kindness of the lovely Jonathan, I have a new server home. Unfortunately, all my old images went bye-bye with the old server. I'll recreate all the ones I can when I have the chance. Some may well be lost to posterity. C'est la vie.

Reminder to self: Blogger is a swell free tool, but make sure to keep local versions of all files anyway.

[Update: All the pictures, except for one, have been restored. Pleased not to have lost anything truly precious. Somewhat wistful having read back over the previous posts...]

Link Love

My friends! Wouldn't you like this lazy blog to have your link on it! You know you would!

So remind me what your website is, and I'll link to it. See some early examples already in place, to the right in the sidebar there.

I've moved.

Maybe you noticed that you got redirected from my .Mac homepage to my Lucid Design domain. Well, my feed's changed too, so you might want to update if you're aggregating.

As part of my supreme laziness, I decided that I wanted to be able to blog from whatever machine, whenever, and ~ believe it or don't ~ Blogger actually makes it very easy to do that and host the pages yourself, rather than on their machine. It's free, and I'll still have the content where I can control it. This seems like a satisfactory arrangement, for now. I can even fiddle with the templates when I have the time and energy for it.

I'm still trying to decide whether to retain my .Mac subscription. At $99 a year, it's a dubious proposition. It is, however, convenient sometime, and the Backup and Sync features might be worth the cost of admission. If I do renew, I'll do it by buying the discount retail version ($79) through Amazon though.

Apple needs to do something really magic to have a persuasive value proposition with .Mac. Like calendars you can edit online. And good blogging software that creates a blog you can edit from anywhere...

[Update: I bought the Amazon retail version. Not quite ready to give up the .Mac goodies.]

Because I'm So Lazy

Why am I starting a blog? Why?

Because I'm lazy. I'm penetratingly lazy. I am profoundly, nay, morbidly lazy. I am lazy on an Olympic scale. I'm so lazy that couch potatoes look like busy little worker-bees, very monuments of productivity, by comparison.

This is how lazy I am: I'll just about manage to scrape together an entry every now and then so that people who might conceivably want to know what's going on with me can stop by and check, or ~ for those almost as lazy as I ~ subscribe to my news feed and have it delivered to their aggregator of choice.

How lazy am I? I'm just that lazy. Lazy enough to imagine that people are less lazy than I am, and that they'll actually come and read occasionally.