So long, Blogger.

Nary an Original Thought is in a bit of a transitional phase right now. I am leaving Blogger in favor of WordPress, for multiple reasons. The main issue is control. If (yeah, right… when!) blogger is down, I am unable to publish new posts, edit old ones, or even republish existing content to my blog. If I change anything in the layout of the blog, I have to watch this icon go 'round and 'round for a long, long time while blogger republishes the static files for the entire blog:

Blogger has been good to me, but it's time to move on. I will leave all of my old posts in place so internal links will continue to work, but I have also duplicated the old posts within WordPress, so hopefully this move won't be too much of an inconvenience for my loyal readers. If you subscribe to my blog via the atom.xml syndication, now would be a good time to update your subscription.

Please let me know if you have any problems with the new site and/or layout. I've hacked the template up like crazy, so it is quite possible that it will have a few bugs for a little while.

See you on the other side!

UPDATE: I changed some settings on the old blog so visitors would see an announcement that the blog had moved.? Of course, I had to try three times before Blogger successfully republished the site.? Sheesh.