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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Cutting edge blogging stuff...by Jenny the late

Because I am so up-to-date on everything, or not...I just discovered that Sheryl declared January 8-12 the official week of De-lurking. So, enjoy the cute button...and comment. I know you are there...hello?

Barb posted on this and put me in the know. We are all about sharing the knowledge. (and it's late and I have nothing to blog about...)

Next in cutting-edge news: I finally moved to new blogger. Because, as Barb pointed out; we don't want to be known as an old blooger. I have to confess that I was dragging my feet only because

a) I am a procrastinator by nature (hubby says I work best under pressure, bless his heart for finding a positive in that somewhere!)

b)I was afraid of losing my blog, or at least losing my sitemeter or photobucket feed and techno-challenged that I am..I would not be able to fix it.

So, I badgered (uh,sweetly queried) husband to copy my template into a word document for safe keeping, tho what I would do with it after my blog crashed is questionable...probably beg Susie at bluebird blogs to help me!
And then we clicked the magic "switch now" button that has been beckoning for months now, the siren song of "new" blogger-strategically placed right where you might accidently click it.
Then I held my breath as the bloger wheel spun round and round...
then, congratulations! It's a blog! And it is all there, every bit!

I do feel silly that I put that off so long, it really was no big deal.

posted at 11:48 PM
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9 Comments:

At 7:54 AM, Susanne said...: I was the same way with new blogger. Scared in case something happened. But mine went without a hitch, although it took 3 and some hours when it said it would be done in a few minutes, which almost gave me a nervous breakdown, thinking it was losing the whole darn thing. I haven't had any problems and am enjoying some of the new features although, I have heard of some people having trouble accessing their site.
At 7:57 AM, Barb said...: You're so lucky that anything even happened when you clicked on "switch now." I've had the invitation to switch for three months and they won't let me.

They keep telling me my blog's too big. I guess they're looking at posts and comments combined. Apparently I talk too much and my friends talk back to me too much. Sigh.

Maybe I need a crabby old lady button that says, "Would it kill you to ignore me for a while so I can get this blog moved?" LOL
At 10:48 AM, Cyndi said...: I had the same experience as Susanne (the nervous breakdown part, LOL). It made me want to figure out a good way to back up my blog, while it's not very big yet...

Glad you're still "all here!" And new! :)
At 12:46 PM, Hen Jen said...: Susanne,

wow, 3hrs! I think I would have had the nervous breakdown! I read your comment to my husband and he laughed in disbelief, he witnessed how I was biting my nails as the little blogger wheel went round...in suspense if it was going to work. 3 hrs would have killed me I think. I am glad it all worked out for you.

Jenny
At 12:47 PM, Hen Jen said...: Barb,

I am so sorry about the trouble you are having, I hope it gets worked out soon. You cannot be the only really big blog, hopefully they will offer a solution for blogs like yours.
let us know when you get to make the move!

Jenny
At 4:55 PM, Mrs. Darling said...: Im not a lurker really but I did want to let you know I'm here.:)
At 5:17 PM, Gail said...: I'm so glad my blog isn't hosted on Blogger.com. It used to be before I decided to get my own server space. When I transfered my stuff from Blogger to my own server, I just saved a file of my archived posts that Blogger produced for me. Maybe you should do the same and update it every so often, just in case something does go awry and all your archives, etc. get lost. You can also save your template by copying and pasting it into Notepad and saving it as a .txt file. I had my comments hosted by Haloscan, so I had to retrieve them from there, but I am sure Blogger has a file you can download to your computer with all of your comments in it. Check it out. God bless!
At 6:43 PM, Anonymous said...: am i a lurker? i think i've commented before. i read your blog a lot. consider me outed if i have never commented.
At 10:02 PM, At A Hen's Pace said...: Hi Jennifer--

I was afraid to switch for the same reasons--but then my hand was forced when I lost half my template SOMEHOW while I was working on it, and DIDN'T HAVE A BACKUP.

At least I still had the part with my header...and I finally managed to recreate my old look.

I do like the new Blogger, don't you? It is much faster, and I'm lovin' the post labels! Though it's quite a job going back through my archives, it's also been kinda fun.

Jeanne

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