I was way short of excited to receive an email from the Blogger/Google folks this week letting me know that the FTP capability of blogger is being deprecated in March. According to the email only 5% of Blogger users take advantage of the FTP tool. This is, of course, the approach I've used since June 15, 2003, when I launched this blog. And, of course, the other blogs I've set up, as well, including Lost Love, Guitar Circle of Chicago, White Molasses, and Sam Hubbell. The GCoC blogs hadn't been updated for 18 months or so, I deleted them and left the team members' posts available for porting elsewhere.

So, I was left with three choices for the other blogs:

1. Switch to another platform
2. Setup the blogs on blogspot
3. Use the "custom domain" feature of Blogger

Seeing as options 1 and 3 require a little cash outlay, I decided to move forward with option 2.

I spent the better part of the day making this migration. These things can never be straight forward, no way, and let's not forget the ridiculous factor associated with Internet Explorer's poor excuse for standards compliance. The only casualty of the migration is I lost the 10px border at the top of this blog. I suspect I'll figure out a way to get it back someday, perhaps with a little help from my friends. Otherwise, this blog is ported to a new address - http://lorenclaypool.blogspot.com/. Don't forget to change your rss feed reader!

And, while I was at it, I imported the 316 posts I had made in my GCoC blog into this one, consolidating the record, if you will. There may a duplicate here and there; if so, I'll clean them up over time. For now, though, I'll call it a day.

Of course, I lost the afternoon I had hoped to spend in the studio. More on that energy in a future post.