A large part of yesterday was spent updating the blog to WordPress, but I’m glad I made the move.\u00a0 Now I have I realise that Blogger wasn’t really designed to give the user proper control over his or her own blog, particularly if they wanted to host it on their own domain.<\/p>\n
I do worry that there are an increasing number of things on the internet that give you pseudo control over what should be your own.\u00a0 Yes, I know that blogger is free in the sense that users don’t pay money, but are we really paying in other ways?\u00a0 WordPress may be the same — I don’t know — but so far it feels like I do have a lot more control.<\/p>\n
One of the problems I had yesterday when setting up was that I couldn’t seem to install WordPress because it couldn’t get access to the database.\u00a0 After trying lots of things, I eventually changed the password for the database and this worked.\u00a0 However, the really weird thing was that I changed it to exactly what it was.\u00a0 Computers, eh?<\/p>\n
Although I have chosen a theme and modified it slightly, I may go for another theme at some point.\u00a0 I like the simple, clean look of this theme, but it’s not quite flexible enough and it could do with more Widgets.<\/p>\n
The only thing I’m concerned about now is that people who link to my blog will now have broken links on their sites or in their favourites and may never find this.\u00a0 If you have found this, please note the new URL, above, and update your links.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n
The importing from Blogger did some strange things, mostly minor, but on the whole I’ve found that my old posts have come through okay.<\/p>\n
Now for more blogging.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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