Hmmm

Well, I'm giving Blogger a try using my own website finally. It seems fairly easy to use, especially this 'post by email' thing (which I am now using). I think that is a positive feature given that I'm on dial-up and am not always online. Will see how that goes.

One big downside so far is the inability to group or categorize posts. I had been thinking about trying to install Movable Type but my experience is that that kind of thing takes knowledge and patience and both are things in limited supply anymore.

I had originally hoped to basically recreate my old jablog blog, but that will take quite a bit of effort since I was never able to download or backup my posts. I did manage to save copies of each page to my hard drive, so I do have copies of almost everything I posted (I think I lost my list of links and polls and maybe some other minor stuff). I know a lot of folks were pretty pissed when jablog disappeared, especially given the way it just seemed to fade away. I never really heard a final "goodbye" but it's completely gone now.

If I decide to use this blog permanently I will want to make some changes to the template. But mostly I want it to be easy for me to use and for it to make sense. Given the amount of posts I did previously, just having posts by date may or may not be the best way for me to go. Who knows. As of now I don't plan on trying to continue with my movie reviews though it might be nice to just keep a list going with some
basic thoughts. Don't know...