Arnold Says .

[muchtooarrogant]

What's this? All that drama in his last entry, and now he's posting again?

LOL Yes, tis true, "I'LL BE BACK!" Sorta!

First, you are seeing this post thanks to the built-in crossposting service
offered by Dreamwidth. As long as the LJ servers are up when the post goes
live on DW, you LJ peeps should see it.

The why, of course, was a bit more complicated. What I realized after
writing my last entry was that a good bit of my anger was fueled by the fact
that I was ready for my LJ hiatus to be over. Interesting events--well,
interesting to me at least--had happened over here, and I wanted to blog
about them. I went to LJ, and you know the rest.

Post rant, I decided that I would begin searching for a new blog home.

• Wordpress: huge, very popular, and also inaccessible. I
  signed up, picked a link from its main page, the new page loaded, and
  nothing appeared to change. I repeated this exercise a few times with
  different links, and then finally realized what was going on, the page
  was changing, I just couldn't read the dynamic content.
  NEXT!



• Blogger: I must admit, I didn't even try signing up with this
  one. One of my friends has a Blogger account, and whenever I want to post a
  comment in response to one of her entries, the damned thing makes me go
  through a CAPTCHA verification. It knows who I am, shows my Google username
  right on the bloody page, but still I must prove that I'm not a robot?
  Screw that!



• Posterous: I was excited when I read an article about this one.
  Easy to use, free, and you could post directly via e-mail. . . . There
  was just one little problem, they got bought out by Twitter, and then got
  shut down. *sigh*

I won't bore you with the complete list of every service I experimented
with, just suffice it to say that, after much frustration and gnashing of
teeth, I eventually made it over to Dreamwidth. What took me so long, and
why weren't they the first ones I tried? Primarily, I think my misgiving
was that, from what I knew, they were a little too much like LJ. I
figured, if I was going to have to stop using LJ altogether, why not make a
clean break?

Once I finally gave them a try though, the contrast was amazing. The signup
process included a CAPTCHA, but this one was completely accessible. Even
for free accounts, the site was ad free, you only had to pay if you wanted
extra goodies like the ability to post polls. There was a full import from
LJ, not just entries, but icons, tags, profile info, etc. (So far, the only
thing I've noticed that didn't get transferred over were my Youtube videos,
but at least this was clearly labeled as a known bug.) The best part was,
they had the Posterous feature I loved so much, the ability to post an entry
via email. In fact, that's how I sent this one. And, of course, it will
shoot everything you post over to your LJ account if you tell it to.

Holy best of both worlds, Batman!

Of course, I'll still have to check my friends page over in LJ-land, unless
you guys all move with me LOL, but Hell, I did that anyway, even when I
wasn't posting entries. The crisis, it hath been averted, and now I can get
back to posting those long drawn out stories full of personal reflections
you all love to hate so much. *grin*

Dan

P.S. FYI, my Dreamwidth link is:
http://muchtooarrogant.dreamwidth.org/

P.P.S. For those of you who saw this entry go up the first few times, I obviously haven't figured out all the ins and outs of e-mail posting as yet. *grin*

Comments

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

I actually wrote Lj a cranky email after your last post, saying I was losing friends due to their changes, that the changes made interaction harder, and if I wanted a rumble I would go there not here.

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

Hey, thank you! That's pretty awesome! Unfortunately, it probably won't do any good, but you never know!

Dan

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

Yay!

So where is the interesting news you want to post about?

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

What,my search for a new blogging site wasn't exciting enough for you? LOL Yes, I know, now I owe you all a real update. No worries, I'm packing for a conference today, but don't leave until late, so should be able to get the first one out. :)

Dan

[judo100.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing -- post on DW and let it copy to LJ. I'm (you guessed it) Judo100 on both.

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

Cool, that's two friends I know of over there. With any luck, more people'll make the switch. I'd like to support them, since they're doing such a great job.

Dan

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Glad you're back! :-)

[muchtooarrogant.livejournal.com]

Thanks!