Thanks to Dave, Leslee, and rr for their “public service announcement” posts directing folks to my new blog-digs. One of the sad outcomes of this week’s sudden blog death is my (current) inability to post any announcement on my still-defunct main site. At some point, I plan to redirect my Hoarded Ordinaries domain to this one, but before I can do that, I need to migrate most of the many photos I’ve blogged over the years, which still “live” on my old host’s server. So until I can do a massive migration to flickr, my old, dead-in-the-water site will live on, if only to house old photos.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying the learning curve of tinkering with this new WordPress site and think I’ll be happy blogging here. As a Buddhist, I know that “impermanence surrounds us,” but sometimes it’s good, I think, to get shocked out of the usual complacency. Blogging is by nature an ephemeral genre: every day, yesterday’s post gets superceded by today’s, which is how days themselves work. The initial panic I felt on Thursday afternoon at the thought of losing any of the entries I’d not saved–and I’d been woefully irregular when it came to making backups–points to an interesting desire for permanence on my part. Blogs are not books: blogs consist of mere electronic blips that can be annihilated at any moment. Although books can burn, their paper-based technology seems so much more lasting than cyber-ephemera, which tells me I should revisit the blog-to-book project I’d begun and then abandoned last year.
In the meantime, I thought I’d offer a different sort of Public Service Announcement, this one displayed not anywhere in Ireland but in my favorite weekend lunch spot in West Newton, MA.
If Guinness is good for you, it must be a sorry state indeed to be Guinnless.
May 26, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I don’t usually open my email to find a subject line about finding my HO … for a minute there, I thought my SPAM filter was defunct (just teasing).
Welcome to the new neighborhood, and thanks for sharing the secret … I’d hate to click on my Dr. Lorianne link and find it staring back at me with nothing but white expanses punctuated by no words, no photos, no nothing. Welcome to your new home!
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May 27, 2007 at 1:09 am
Startled me for a moment, since HO stands for House Officer, the MD, often a resident, on call for a hospital unit. I was wondering what a resident wanted, but just for a half beat.
Got ’em redirected from my little site as well.
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May 27, 2007 at 4:19 am
mmm if I was a Guinness drinker I’d be drowning my sorrows after the results of our general election this week…maybe it’s time to start?
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May 27, 2007 at 9:57 am
Yes, after I sent that email, I wondered if “Looking for HO” would get snagged by spam filters. So I’m glad the message got through!
that girl, there surely are other beverages with which to solace yourself about the election, although from experience I can tell you it doesn’t work. Perhaps now you know how U.S. Democrats felt in both 2000 & 2004.
An unrelated remark: you might be interested to know that the pub where I shot this sign has more Irish waitstaff than any of the establishments I frequented on your side of the pond last year. Perhaps if Americans want a taste of “Irish” Ireland, they should go to West Newton, MA…
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May 27, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Glad to see you’re back up and running. I was wondering what was up. Nice shades of green, by-the-way! Seems to be a popular hue once again.
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May 28, 2007 at 9:38 pm
How are you enjoying WordPress? š
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May 29, 2007 at 8:56 am
Yes, I’m surprised to see the totally white pages at your old domain. But was glad to learn of the new location through your link at Photo Friday. (That’s how I first learned of you.) Quite a mystery how and why the html did that? A peculiar of that system? Anyway, I hope you’ll be happy with WordPress. A lot of journallers have migrated there.
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May 29, 2007 at 9:36 am
I’m glad that folks are gradually finding me here: until I migrate all the photos from my old site (and there are tons of them!), I can’t redirect my domain from my old host. So the “White Screen of Death” will linger until I’ve finished unpacking my blog-boxes. š
So far, Johnny, I’m loving WP. The learning curve hasn’t been too daunting, and I love how sleek and “professional” the templates look.
I’m a long-time Blogger fan, but I think WP has won me over.
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May 29, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I wondered where you’d gone.
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Sep 4, 2010 at 2:22 am
This chair looks familiar!
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