…the thoughts are broken… is no more.
This is to in no way imply that my thoughts are no longer broken. That, I fear, shall always be the case in this society. It only means that I canceled my TypePad account this morning before it came up for renewal, which instantaneously nuked my old blog there.
My 1st post there was on 29 Jan 2005 and the last was on 19 July 2006. The most recent stats via TypePad were:
541 posts
658 comments
192 trackbacks
Total # of page views: 29114
Avg/Day: 36.62
Last 7 days: 212
Almost all of those recent hits were coming from google (across the world) or images.google. Some of them were finding posts I am still proud of, and some were finding blather or silly quizzes.
TypePad wanted to know why I killed my account, so I told them. I have no idea how they’ve performed over the last 9 months since my last post was in July 2006, but at the time they were having serious reliability issues. I often could not log in to my account to write a post, etc. Being a reasonably busy person like most of us, that put a definite crimp in my blogging activity. And while they had already extended my account for 45 days due to a previous episode of unreliability, I did not appreciate not being able to use something I was paying $90/year for.
Now comes the “cleanup.” Maybe. I need to ensure that the Carnival of the Infosciences links at the wiki point to the posts on this blog. That’s a definite. There is also a fair amount of interlinking of those early posts that is now completely broken. Maybe over summer I can try and fix the more important ones. Maybe.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Laura // Apr 11, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Due to a) life circumstances and b) the diabolical nature of alphabetical order, I haven’t been keeping up with you nearly as much since you switched blogs–but I plan to change that! Here’s for ordering feeds by order of update! Or something!
The flowers in your header are lovely–I wish we had some around here.
Hope your illness is improving.
2 Mark // Apr 12, 2007 at 7:44 am
Hi Laura,
You have seemed a bit quiet lately. Been missing our infrequent IM chats, but I could be better about reaching out than I am. Hope things are better for you.
So, you’re saying I ought to put an ellipsis in front of the “Off…”?
Thanks, yes, the flowers are lovely although I believe they are from last year. We had some and then a freeze, but now we have more. At least you get to see actual wildflowers when you go hiking.
I think I’m getting better. Haven’t had one of my “weak” spells in several weeks and am on an antibiotic for a sinus infection. I do feel a bit better.