It is sooooo good to come here and find so many messages to read and respond to!
I wish my family would use the White family board.
The other day, I went to the White family board and left a message for about the 4th time without anyone else having left a message… I wanted to say things that would be better left unsaid if anybody were to come to the board and read it. I really wanted to say those things! I was frustrated. I thought, “If I had my own blog I could vent all I wanted” (and chances are nobody would ever read it because i do not think i would tell anybody about my blog.) 🙂 So i bought a domain name. thecornerofmylivingroom.com. I still like it. It is where i am when i am on the computer and it has the flavor i wanted. (Sooo many names like that were already taken.)
Whether to set up a blog for myself is there in the back of my mind now. Even though i have done nothing with it, it is cool to have my own domain name. Right now the decisions i am cogitating over are whether to do it, and whether to host it with the whitefamily site (as an add-on domain) or to buy my own space. Chris, how hard is it to move a blog with contents?
Having a blog has always appealed to me. You know how much i love to talk and lecture and give people the benefit of my wisdom. 🙂
Oiy. Moving a database around can be easy, can be hard. All depends on how much access to the database you have and what tools they give you.
Moving a wordpress database, if you have good tools to access it, isn’t too hard. (note: cpanel places usually have decent tools to do this.) I have done it for christina’s site without too much work. Some work, yes, but it was doable.
Otherwise, it’s just files for the rest. That’s the easy part
And as an addition, I have been wondering:
a) how involved your family would be on the whitefamilytree
b) how you would react to their level of involvement.
Personally speaking, I used to write my own blog. Then I stopped as it was read by so few people and I wanted interaction. I was dissapointed; if I started one now I would do it just for myself. Any visitors I got would be great, but not a driving force of doing the blog.
If i did put a blog online i doubt that i would even tell anyone… particularly i would not tell the white family. I would also not put my name on it. Now i say that i would be writing entirely for my own sake, and not in the hopes that anyone would read or respond… but i have to admit that the possibility of someone running across my blog and finding it interesting is appealing. I guess that is why the urge to put it online rather than in a spiral notebook in my bottom dresser drawer.
(I enjoyed your blog.)
Did you keep your college blog? I mean the blog entries and all. I hope you did. It would be such a good record of the time… it is good to be able to read somethign like that years later and become aquainted with your younger self and remember things that you had forgotten. You should also always keep the babyblog and the family message board and then other one that Christina has going for the same reason.
OK!! Twisted String! I remembered that Ramona wrote the name. I keep trying to remember it, but never can. Now i have it bookmarked! I recognise some of the pictures. 🙂
I don’t think I said it before, but I think that ‘thecornerofmylivingroom.com’ is a cool name. A bit long, but still good.
If you do go for it, you might look into your own hosting… later on. When you have a handle on it and don’t mind having that many more logins to remember, passwords to keep track of, ect.
Oh, I do have backups of my old posts. I might have copies of my old site around here somewhere… but the content is certainly around here in storage.