Finally Done!

For the past couple of weeks I've been in the process of moving my blogs from MySpace to Blogger.  It hasn't been easy, as MySpace has no built-in means to export blogs, and Blogger's import mechanisms don't work on anything but Blogger blogs. Essentially, I had to capture all of my MySpace blogs as text files and transcribe, or copy and paste, them into new posts on Blogger.  Not fun.

I also split up my blogs, separating out the boating and food posts into their own sites.  I hope this will make for easier reading for those topics, while this blog will continue to catch the rest of my meanderings.

I'm going to delete all blogs on MySpace, except for a final, goodbye blog to be left there for about the next month for those of my friends who are not on Facebook. After that, I plan to delete my MySpace profile.

My reasons for leaving MySpace are detailed in the sidebar.  As to why I don't just post to my Facebook Wall - I don't know what the retention policies are at Facebook.  Blogger exports provide a means of backing up my posts to my local computer, and the export files are XML, although they aren't using any industry-standard schema.  This means that, should I desire it, I can at some future time reformat the files to suit any new host that I might choose.

Anyway, whether you enjoy reading my posts is less important than whether you find them useful.  I hope that they are and remain useful, and that you will continue to look for them here.

Thanks.

Mariner

The Mexican Flag

I just read today that a lot of people of Mexican origin (many still in Mexico) are really peeved at American cartoonist Daryl Cagle.  It seems that he recently drew a cartoon mocking the Mexican "War on Drugs", using a distortion of their national flag.