A Continuation of Life and Love

Well, it took me a while, but I finally figured out that I really don’t like blogger. As I posted my random thoughts with their system I increasingly came to miss the versatility of WP. Here you can schedule posts, in blogger you can’t. Here you can ban trolls and persistent spammers, in blogger you can’t without third-party plugins. Here you have built in software to track your stats, in blogger you have to sign up with a third-party site like Sitemeter to do so. Here you have native support for LaTeX, in blogger you need a greasemonkey/firefox script that converts it into some pretty ugly images. These are the features I missed the most, and on top of the pile I like the look of the templates better.

Of course, my older PowerUp domain is gonna stay up for archival purposes. And Tyler and Foxy’s Scientific and Mathematical Adventure Land is going to remain on blogger. TaFSaMAL is pretty much an aggregator for the primarily science/math focused posts Foxy and I write. Those fitting posts from here will still be cross-posted over there.

When I came back here and signed in again, I felt a rush of nostalgia wash over me. I still regret flushing Growth Rate n lg n down the toilet about a year and a half ago. Sure, some of the posts were just bad, but they were bad in a certain beneficial respect. If they were still around they would serve as a record of my evolution as a writer, a thinker and (hopefully) a professional in my technical understanding. Unfortunately, my instabilities got the better of me that day, and I did something incredibly stupid (there were a couple other stupid things I did in meatspace during that time, though I won’t go into the details).

Well, I’m back, and hopefully I’ll have fun. Update your blogrolls, if you feel like it. As I have the day off tomorrow I’ll spend some time importing all my links and miscellaneous crap from the other site.