Welcome! Come on in…
If you're new around these parts, I just want to say how much I appreciate your dropping by! Oh, and you may want to subscribe to my feed. Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to ya!
Welcome to the new, improved Middle Zone Musings! It’s great to finally get out of the dastardly clutches Blogger and on my own domain!
It’s going to take me a few days at least to get things organized around here. Please bear with me as I dust and mop, sweep and vacuum the new digs. Lots of things to do!
There will be still more changes; a few things that might take time to get into place. There’s feeds, the Technorati Fave button, that MyBlogLog widget, and lots of other odds and ends. Plus, now that I’m using Wordpress, I’ve got a veritable plethora (like my new word? found it on my word-a-day toilet paper) of widgets and plugins to play with (oh, goody, goody!)
Hopefully I can still keep the usual once-a-day pace, barring any unforseen problems (like if I inadvertently do something weird to the Wordpress theme and accidently get sucked down a wormhole. Hey, don’t laugh - I read about it in the National Enquirer just last week.)
And as I said before (at the old site), any suggestions, advice, ideas, good links, great plugins, handy widgets, money or rants you care to send my way will be truly appreciated! I have no pride to lose here, folks, so now’s your chance to show off all those things you’ve already learned the hard way. Just post your suggestions in the comments.
And if I don’t use your suggestions, please don’t be offended; I promise to at least consider everything.
I’d also like to say again how much I appreciate the help of the honorable Mr. William Tully of LOGICal eMOTIONs, who not only helped me get started, but actually set the site up for me! Talk about your above and beyond! Many thanks, Tully, you’re a Prince among men!
Let’s get started, and see where we end up, shall we?
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Bob,
I know that it’s still “early days”, but your site is shaping up nicely.
Hi Bob,
Like the new look, very ‘fresh’ !
One tiny little remark though: the comments are ‘up-side-down? (or is that intentional?)
Ooops!
That was already sorted (I do appologise!)
Thanks, Tariq. Lots to do! Lots to do!
Karin, thanks; you had me worried for a minute. I thought I woke up in Australia!
Last night I completely “lost” the posts, but everything seems to be working fine this morning. Y’all keep those ideas and suggestions coming!
no ideas no suggestions except todya’s quate of the day had me rolling
My karma ran over my dogma!
Keep on with it Bob - nice name btw
That a funny one, wasn’t it? Thanks for dropping by, Bob! 
Bravo to you for making the change - I’m still in Blogger thinking about changing, so you are way ahead of a lot of us. All my best for success at your new location, and thanks for putting me on your blogroll!
Hey, no problem Starbucker! I’m just glad I met Liz - she’s the ultimate connector, the “queen bee” of the internet…
As far as WordPress is concerned - I’m lookin’ forward to finding out what this baby can do now!
Love the new site. You can run, but you can’t hide …
… and for your information, young man, we are not upside down in Australia. (We’re kinda just leaning out the side of the planet, holding on for grim death)
Dang! I thought if I just moved while you had your back turned… no, just kidding, just kidding!
Whaddaya mean, you’re not upside down? I just read it in the National Enquirer last week…
Oh, and thanks for the “young man” bit.
[...] Robert Hruzek recently made a similar move. Congrats on adopting “shitty software” (but that’s not meant in a bad way). [...]
Congratulations on the move. I’ve commented in my own weblog several times in the past on the importance of doing something like this yourself, complete with some explanation of reasons for independence from weblog service providers.
Reasons I’ve brought up include, but are not limited to, service outages without recourse to tech support, the reliance on someone else to ensure that your weblog (and, potentially, its content) do not evaporate, getting locked into an insular little community without widespread appeal, and the inability to modify many behaviors of the weblog software to suit your needs.
So, again . . . congratulations.
Thanks, apotheon! I’ve been toying with the idea of doing this since the first of the year (and I realized I was truly serious about blogging). But Tully is the one who convinced me to go ahead and do it now. I was ready, but not quite willing…
Now that I’m here, I can see the advantages and I’m glad I didn’t wait too long!