Yes, it's the latest iteration of the blog.
A year ago I moved from Typepad to Write.as - notes on this below. But now, given that Write.as really isn't what I want and this blog already existed, I've moved on, or rather consolidated my content provision to Blogger.
I'd for some reason forgotten I had the Blogspot blog, which at the time was called Alt.Kingston - being a series of pieces from the time when I was living in Kingston upon Thames. No reason I can't revive it with some of my old content and then produce some new. There was also something called Jintiboohah (!) which may have been renamed and rebranded as Alt.Kingston, I don't recall. It doesn't exist now.
Here's what I wrote a year ago.
My old website is now defunct. Newer cafe reviews and a couple of other pieces have been uploaded – the older cafe reviews are now on Flickr. As to the rest, it also exists on my PC and in the Cloud and is no longer needed online. It’s a shame in a way as there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with Typepad as such: it’s straightforward to use (rather what Wordpress was ten years ago when I was using it more), but when a company won’t even allow new sign-ups and directs prospective users to a sister company using a rival technology, then it is probably time to call it a day. (tl;dr: even Typepad’s owners want you to use Wordpress). And I also don’t need the huge number of pages and posts on there to still be online.
I’ve had a website of some kind for several years, probably since 2000 –
there is a very early homepage that says ‘revised September 2001’ and has a
SFF.net logo so it will have been hosted there. At the time (2000-2001), I also
did work for local sites such as the Fulham and Hammersmith Historical Society
(still going but I handed it over to them), H&F Local Agenda 21, Cycick
(cycle repair company), H&F Pedestrians Association, and Haughton and
Naughten (costume designers). Much of the ‘my site’ pages on my PC date from
the mid-2000s, including a vehicle list from 2004 and the pubs of H&F
survey (2002-03). The precursor to the pubs list shows dated updates from 2002
and 2003. It also references walkingspace.org, a domain I owned at the time but
which is now owned by a walking tours company. There is a page on it for
Horncastle School (i.e. not a separate site); this also links to the
Yahoogroups mailing list. There is also a list of domains I owned, which
contains:
fhhs.co.uk, fhhs.org.uk, fh-pubs.org.uk, chrisamies.com, deadground.com,
chrisamies.co.uk, haf21.org.uk, hfla21.org.uk, horncastleschool.co.uk, last-orders.com
At one point I had something called Bathos, on the NTLWorld server,
which appears to have been a link page to my other pages. (Pubs list, FHHS,
Horncastle, Pictures for SPPHRE whatever that is).
In Autumn 2005 I declared the intention to move to a blog-based
solution, which I said would be Livejournal and for a while was (finally
leaving LJ on 19/01/2018, although I didn’t use it much after around 2015).
At the time I still used FTP for the FHHS and Horncastle sites and also
for a separate website for the Hammersmith and Fulham pubs list. I said I was
going to move to blogs in 2005; but the Wordpress account dates from nearly
four years later, so did I not have a website for four years? I’m not sure, but
it seems likely that either I didn’t, or I did but just let it be and didn’t do
anything with it. In the same piece I also noted moving images to Flickr, which
in terms of the pub list did happen. Years later I’ve followed it with the
earlier (i.e. pre-Cheltenham) cafe reviews.
Wordpress: joined June 2009. Personal website will have been there from
6/2009 until 3/2014 (4 years 9 months). I don’t think I’ve ever paid for
Wordpress, but they may yet make it a paid-only service in which case I will
either need to pay for hosting for the Horncastle School site (the most likely
outcome) or move it elsewhere. The earliest page date for that site on WP is
15/06/2010. During that era I also designed WP sites for Martinworks
(handyman), The Spirits Authority (experts in whisky etc.), the Fairfield
Tavern (not used), and The Silver Wizard Project (rock band, sadly split up
before releasing their first album or the website).
The Solitary Review: Typepad website 16/03/2014 to 28/11/2021 (7 years 8
months).
3/12/2010 is the date on the earliest article, which references my
Nanowrimo work, _Brothers of the Shadow._This will have been a page ported from
my Wordpress site.
Charge has always been US$8.95 per month, so at least there were no
unwelcome increases.
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