Friday, December 22, 2006

Blogging casualties

So here's what happened with the address:

  • My google account is in my uni email address, which will be de-activated soon, so I decided to make a new gmail account and have the blogs on that account.
  • On the 5th of December I created a new gmail address, added the gmail-google account as a contributer of the blog, and deleted the old uni-google account. This is where things started going pear-shaped.
  • The blog was not deleted with the uni-google account, but as the gmail-google account wasn't the primary contributer it would display on my dashboard but not to the public.
  • I emailed blogger on the 5th, asking them to reset it.
  • I waited for an answer.
  • On or about the 10th I gave up waiting and created a new blog on the gmail-google account. So now there are two blogs in play: the old "no dash" (slowlanedan.blogspot.com) and the new "dash" (slowlane-dan.blogspot.com).
  • I slowly transferred most of the posts from the "no dash" blog (which was still there but unviewable to the public) to the "dash" blog.
  • Then I registered www.slowlanedan.com and had that redirecting to the "dash" blog.
  • I received an email on the 20th from blogger asking me to prove that I owned the uni-google account, which I did, and voila, the old "no dash" blog was returned.
  • So now I've moved the handful of newest posts from "dash" blog to "no dash" and changed the redirection of the URL to the "no dash" blog.
What this means for you, the punter:
I will try not to let this happen again!

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