Blogging is a weird avocation, one I’ve been at for a very very very very very long time. Seven years I think. Something like that. And I can tell you that bloggers get restless. Because half the fun of creating a blog is CREATING it. Setting up the WordPress account or tweaking the Greymatter or making the odd punishing decision to do the whole thing in Notepad, archives be darned. Despite the fact that most bloggy software is meant to create a stable way to create and archive content, many bloggers get downright restless now and again, either threatening not to post evar again or snapping up new domain names and shopping for new themes.

A few years ago I bought jstreet.net, and I’ve been wondering what to do with it ever since. I keep thinking it should be turned into a cool D.C. blog. And I keep trying. But I’m not a cool D.C. guy. I’m kind of a nerdly homebody who just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with that. So I keep trying to do the JStreet thing but end up back at the good ol’ tongue-in-cheek home sweet home.

So for the two of you who read this. Keep reading, I reckon. Here I am. Until next time I get a wild hair to do something else.

I am working on an ideer that might allow me to keep my URI here at adventuresintothewellknown.com. Uh, stay tunered.

Many of you will soon be given this spiffy new Blogger URL for the Adventures blog. As is perennially the case with most blogger-folk, I have decided to make some drastic changes in how I run these things.

This sort of started when Dreamhost wrote and said I was using too much of their system sources. I have tended to use a lot of PHP scripts and such, but I didn’t think it were that many, for goodness sake. I don’t want to have to worry and fuss around with all of that. So, I hatched a plot to start moving all of my stuff back to free services. Might as well save myself $20 a month and fix Dreamhost’s wagon whilst I’m at it.

So, this is where this will reside for awhile. I rather like the notion of not paying for it. Besides, Blogger has improved a lot since I was using it three years ago. What it can’t do is run PHP, so I’m sort of one-handed here regarding online sorcery. What it can do that Greymatter didn’t do is to make users register to post comments, thus disallowing bot-spamming. Yay!

P.S. I am digging through archives and adding blasts from the past. You can do that with Blogger. : )

When you decide to make changes to your blog, you can make some hellish mistakes.

I decided today that I want to keep my domain name next year. I like owning my own domain name, and to me, it’s worth the money. So I decided to put some redirect script onto the blogspot page.

In the process, I messed up the template.

I will, I hope, have it back the way it was before, better, stronger, faster…You may change your bookmarks, if you like. Sorry about all the confusion.

My e-mail will continue to cruise over to AOL, though I have forwarded bjp.com mail.

My last two entries ended with questions.

Is that okay?

Today, I have come to an executive decision.

I have in the past taken a lot of pride in the fact that I design and build this Web site on my own. However, it’s coming time to make a few decisions about how I want to proceed. Soon, I will have to ante up again to responsor this domain name and this host or to decide if existing service can suit my needs better. After having experimented with the Blogger system and successfully overlapping my existing design onto a Blogger template, it’s become clear that Blogger has a LOT more to offer than my current host for this purpose. With Blogger, I can offer commenting, I can update easily, with automatic date headers?not to mention a timestamp?and I can archive instantly. It is, quite simply, the right tool for the job.

Until my hosting contract is up in May, I will have the old domain point in this general direction. Hopefully, that’s enough time for folks to bookmark, if yer interested. This move will save me a lot of cash and will at the same time make this sucker a lot more fun.

Have a nice day.