The last six years of my writing on the web can be found here. This is where I’ve put all my old Blogger posts from my old domains. geeksuperstar.org and searchingforhappy.net.
searchingforhappy.net now forwards to this site, so if you came from there, please update your bookmarks. (who am I kidding – no one has bookmarked my site!)
If switching to Vox goes well, this could be a huge change in my online presence (online presence! way to sound like an internet rockstar instead of a dork with a website!). I’ve had a website in some shape or form since 1999. I’ve had my own domain and hosting since 2000, so I have always had control of my own website, although I’ve used Blogger to maintain my blog.
So moving to an externally hosted site is really different for me. And a little scary – I’m not sure if I want to give up complete control. However, as I continue to think about it, switching to a free blog host makes more sense. I don’t create as much content as I would like, so paying for hosting my own domain seems silly sometimes. Since my web design skills have gone down the toilet due to lack of use, it’s not like I need for the hosting for doing creative things design-wise. It’s nice to be able to click a few times and have something nice to look at (and the layouts here are quite spiffy). That way, I can concentrate on creating interesting content. Interesting of course, being in the mind of the beholder.
I really like the sense of community here. And that there are things like “Question of the Day” and “Vox Hunt” that can give you a starting point for a good post when you are sick of posting things like “too busy at work”, “house is a mess” and other phrases that lead to uninteresting content.
My only major problem is that I don’t know what to do with the last six years of archives from my previous sites. I don’t want to pay to host them somewhere if they are only up for posterity, and it doesn’t look like I can export ’em here. A lot of the content is drivel, but there are some interesting things in there, and it does show some progression in my life. hmm…I wonder if republishing to a new blogspot account and just letting it sit there would be a good idea. Then I could link to that site from here and if someone wanted to look at the old stuff, they could. I can’t imagine that many people would really want to look at posts I made six years ago, but taking it down makes me feel like I am ashamed of it, which I am not.
