A Semi-Farewell (and a shameless plug for my new blogging space)
Hello to all of my Livejournal friends. I regret to inform you that, in part because of the DDoS madness that has struck the LJ servers, I have decided to relocate my blog elsewhere. I have set up a WordPress installation over at Twice Cooked -- formerly my photography site -- and will be blogging from there. There are a few things you should know about this move, if you care:
1) I am not giving up my LJ account. I will still be reading my friends page and commenting (as much as I ever have). So please don't go and un-friend me or anything like that.
2) I am in the process of trying to get my posts at Twice Cooked to syndicate to this space, so that I can have my cake (a stable place to blog) and eat it too (the satisfaction of being part of this community).
3) For folks who had photographs hosted through a subdomain of the old Twice Cooked, most of those photos are still there. I cleaned out some of the very old ones, and some of the ones that seem to have become corrupted over the years. But if you know the name of your gallery, you can likely still get to it.
4) I have sort of formalized over there what I have informally been doing here over the years. Rather than a general-purpose blog, Twice Cooked will be devoted to four things: cooking, brewing, (some) photography, and politics. It isn't as though I've ever made that many personal posts, so it isn't as though this is going to be a huge change. But I figure it's going to go like this: if a post is related to one of those four topics, you'll find it at Twice Cooked. If it is about something else, I will probably continue to post here.
5) I will be posting links to entries from the new blog over at Facebook, and Google+. And I am considering posting links here, too, until I figure out how to make it syndicate.
6) If you have a blog you'd like me to link to on Twice Cooked, leave me the URL in a comment here, and I'll get right on it. I'm trying to build a nice links list, but it's looking pretty anaemic right now.
7) That's all for now. I would urge you all to go and check out Twice Cooked. My hope is that it will be the sort of project that is interesting to other people, rather than merely personally gratifying.
Enjoy!
1) I am not giving up my LJ account. I will still be reading my friends page and commenting (as much as I ever have). So please don't go and un-friend me or anything like that.
2) I am in the process of trying to get my posts at Twice Cooked to syndicate to this space, so that I can have my cake (a stable place to blog) and eat it too (the satisfaction of being part of this community).
3) For folks who had photographs hosted through a subdomain of the old Twice Cooked, most of those photos are still there. I cleaned out some of the very old ones, and some of the ones that seem to have become corrupted over the years. But if you know the name of your gallery, you can likely still get to it.
4) I have sort of formalized over there what I have informally been doing here over the years. Rather than a general-purpose blog, Twice Cooked will be devoted to four things: cooking, brewing, (some) photography, and politics. It isn't as though I've ever made that many personal posts, so it isn't as though this is going to be a huge change. But I figure it's going to go like this: if a post is related to one of those four topics, you'll find it at Twice Cooked. If it is about something else, I will probably continue to post here.
5) I will be posting links to entries from the new blog over at Facebook, and Google+. And I am considering posting links here, too, until I figure out how to make it syndicate.
6) If you have a blog you'd like me to link to on Twice Cooked, leave me the URL in a comment here, and I'll get right on it. I'm trying to build a nice links list, but it's looking pretty anaemic right now.
7) That's all for now. I would urge you all to go and check out Twice Cooked. My hope is that it will be the sort of project that is interesting to other people, rather than merely personally gratifying.
Enjoy!