After soldiering along in Radio for two years, I have opted not to renew my Radio subscription when it expires. Salon has not sent me a renewal notice yet, but if my memory serves, I should still be able to publish updates on the current subscription until New Year's Eve.

It would be nice if the powers that be would send me an official reminder to renew. This limbo feels a bit like doing a backstroke in a pool and never being totally sure when you're going to conk your head on the side. Maybe you've never had that experience.

In this transitional period, while I can still blog in Radio, I will be getting comfortable with my new blog, working out kinks. I have decided to use Typepad for my 2006 authoring and hosting. It's not free, it's actually somewhat more expensive than Radio, but I really like the environment and I blog enough to justify the minor additional expense.

I have been really frustrated with Radio, hence my impending switch. But I have loved the Salon community. It has been my blogging "cradle" in many respects. I have it from a techno-birdie that it will be possible to have updates to my Typpad blog appear in Salon's Recently Changed Weblogs index, though I'll no longer be hosted here. This pleases me very much. I want it to be true.

I have also ordered DSL, which won't affect my blogging in any way that matters to readers, but which feels like a big deal, in the waning of the year. As I have soldiered along with Radio, I have also been a loyal dial-up customer, with the same ISP since 2001 or something.

I'm not gone yet. I hope never really to be "gone"--gone, as far as this community is concerned. I'll be making more entries before my Radio subscription runs out--goodbyes, and the like.
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