First things first: To those of you that followed me to this new location – thank you. To those of you who bother to change their links to this site – thank you.
Here’s what’s going on . . .
A few weeks ago WordPress spooked me. They mentioned a problem with the content on my site and locked me out. Though it turned out to be a mistake, it lit a fire beneath my ass and made me do something I’ve long intended to do:
Get my own domain.
Welcome to my own domain.
And though this might be my own place, I could not have done all this shit by myself. Danielle Meder and Anita Clarke were both a great help. Danielle was the driving force here and Anita’s computer knowledge proved invaluable.
I just did the monkey work.
Not so helpful was wordpress. On their free blogs they do not allow access to their code. In order to get an actual redirect from that site to this –another WordPress blog– a little chunk of html would have been helpful. For that tiny string of code that I already know –for the ability to put it into my template and keep it there– they want fifteen bucks a year.
It’s bullshit. Not even evil. Simply cunty. For a free blog, I recommend blogger. Or anything you can access the code in. Live and learn. Sometimes you live long enough to learn the things you already know. Again.
And one thing I know about me is that I’m not paying that fifteen bucks a year. I’ll just start all over again. No search engine status and no links leading here. Just you kind folks. You’re more than enough.
I’ve done all this before. Back then, it scared me to give all that shit up. These days, I don’t really care. I look forward to it. Every time I’ve given up everything, I’ve been improved by it; always coming back stronger, better and even much more popular than before. I can do it again.
I’m doing it now.
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Danielle
July 12, 2009 at 10:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Looks like you’ve managed to import all the archives anyway? I think that’s the critical thing. When I switched over I didn’t get redirects from blogger.
Congrats on mastering your own domain. It will cost you more than $15 a year in hosting and domain fees – but its worth it.
Ryan Oakley
July 12, 2009 at 11:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah. All the archives are here.
Some of the videos weren’t moved but that can be corrected.
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July 14, 2009 at 1:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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