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Three Bullets: Why I Haven’t Moved to Wordpress.com

Posted on January 09th, 2008 in Blogging

It’s not that I don’t want to, but because I’ve found that it’s almost always been more fruitful to wait for the dragon boat race to resolve itself.

Nobody makes it easy to move from one blog to any other, and in particular it gets worse the more experience you have. Not even Wordpress’s Blogger import is enough.

So here are the Big Three, problems I’ve run up against when considering a move to Wordpress, and that I hope Wordpress resolves at some point.

And, in the interests of being fair, I will also list the Other Big Three, problems that have made me even consider moving away from Blogger to Wordpress.

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The Old Site in All Its Cluttered Glory

Posted on January 09th, 2008 in Blogging

If you ever wondered why the old site loaded so slowly, take a gander at this.

Click on the image for the half-sized picture if you dare. Google wouldn’t let me upload the full-sized one.

Yeaaaah.

Now my site–after much application of elbow grease–is much cleaner and clearer. Here are more details about the redesign process.

I’ve also been inspired to take on a small (and completely unrelated) sekrit projekt of my own.

The 1-click button is my friend.

Sshhhhh.

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