Thursday, April 6, 2006

Making My Move Hi!  How've you been? It's kinda lonely here out in Salon Blogland.  Ever since Salon announced they were closing off the Salon blogs to new subscribers, I and a number of other bloggers have made plans for the end of this little neighborhood.   The Salon blogs have been a tremendous experience for me.  I've enjoyed the instant audience that comes with a connection to a large (and intelligent) web magazine like Salon.com.  I've been maintaining this blog for nearly two years, and I've enjoyed sharing my life, my left-leaning and often smartass views, and most recently, the arrival of my son.  And don't worry, chiquitos, I'm not done yet.  The new TMBS is now located at blogger.com.  (Change your bookmarks, s'il vous plait.)  And what's going to happen to this blog?  Here's what I wrote when I created the new blog:  ...what's going to happen is that my former blog is going to essentially waste away. Once the license fee comes due, I won't renew it because it doesn't make sense. Once the blogs were no longer actively promoted by Salon, most of the appeal wore off. Sure, we were still technically part of Salon, but the page views we were once virtually guaranteed were gone. So, like Billy Joel said, I'm moving on. Or moving out. Er ... moving. The reason I haven't posted here for a while is, well, kinda complicated.  Not long after I created the new blog, my computer died.   Straight up went and died.  You can read all about it here.  (P.S.  Another shoutout to my brother for being such an unexpected savior.)  I'm not running on an amazingly sleek 1.5 GHz Intel Core Mac Mini.  As R says, it's about the size of a hardcover book.  An amazing machine.  I'll tell you about it someday.  I haven't tried to start up Radio since then, for fear that it wouldn't recognize the new computer and it would freak out, or delete my blog, or call me filthy names in Mandarin.  To my great amusement, none of that happened.  I still have my entire hard drive saved on an external drive.  So I just mounted my old hard drive on the new computer, and opened Radio. Apparently, it assumed I was on the same computer and ran just like normal.  Score one for complicated and expensive workarounds. Anyway, I'll do my best to cross-post on this blog and on the new one until my yearly subscription runs out.  If you want to leave comments on any future post, please do it on the new blog and not this one.  I'm lonely over there, y'all!  But of course, if you've been waiting here to hear from me, holla at me in the comments.  4:23:51 PM     Speak up!  []