It's 6 pm on a hot afternoon. I'm just in from mowing the meadow and weedeating around. Now our house
looks like someone lives here.
After last evenings hassle with trying to upstream, I decided to finally look for other options. I have about 6 months left
on Salon/Userland. I don't plan to renew. Bad customer and technical service for a paid product. I have some
knowledge of such things, in one of my lifetimes I was a network analyst.
So, check this out: Small Ponderings at Blogspot. It's my test drive, and I have to say I'm WAYYYY pleased. Much easier
to work with than Userland, and if there's a problem you know where it is. Plus, being backed by the Google
powerhouse can't be bad either. In 5 minutes I had the thing up and running, picture posted, and the ability
to post to it from email, SUCCESSFULLY AND WITHOUT any cantankerous server errors et al.
Did I mention, it costs NOTHING? (I am trying to convey my excitement with caps). And you can post to it from
anywhere. I like access, and not having to carry my blog software loaded laptop around. And it has a neat
interface with MS Word that will allow one to create locally and post globally. Oh, goody!
I'll be posting entries in both places for a while just to see if this is a temporary miracle or the real deal.
I'm off to cool off and wind down in the twilight. There's supper to be made, dogs to be walked, and maybe a movie
to watch (or software to work on). Spousal unit is in the studio at school and won't be seen for a few days,
so its a one man show (such as it is) here on the mountain.
Be cool.
6:20:32 PM 
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