My old blog

I was doing a little long-overdue weeding of my IE Favorites this morning. I came across one called "Thoughts of a Technical Author", which was the name of a temporary weblog I kept for a while, while I was testing Radio Userland. When the free trial period expired I stopped blogging.

I clicked the link to see if anything was still there. The link opened a directory at radio.weblogs.com containing the contents of my blog, as individual HTML files. I was quite pleased to see it all still there. I've copied all of the files and will, at some point, save their contents as entries in this MovableType blog.

It was July and August last year. I'd used Radio Userland, thought it was okay, but not as configurable as I wanted, and not independent enough. For a quick, simple blog it's great. Setting it up on another server seemed like it wasn't what it had been designed for and I couldn't find much documentation. So I decided to use MovableType - and then did nothing, except think it over, for more than a year, until this week.