Biennial ‘Blog-Change
Two years after I started New Ideas for Free, I’ve moved my ‘blog here. It’s not as if I dislike LiveJournal, but a combination of factors has made running my site myself more attractive to me.
The first factor is that I have finally reclaimed possession of the Internet. Having only a modem-speed connection for a month was certainly livable, but it didn’t allow me to do a number of things I like to do—like finally have my own server for this site, play games from time to time, and use services provided by Google (which, for some reason, dropped all requests from my GPRS modem).
The second factor is that I finally paid some attention to the new terms of service for LiveJournal, and, as I pointed out before, I didn’t find them reassuring, especially as someone who paid for the service. It’s more attractive to me to have my own system, which I know isn’t going to just up and disappear on me.
But fear not, LJ friends, for I will continue to follow your tribulations. I even wrote a bit of a hack so that my old ‘blog will be automatically updated with links to my new posts (like this one!) as I make them. (If you noticed the flurry of ‘testing’ posts before I deleted them, this is why they were there.)
