Monday, April 05, 2010

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 4/05/2010 02:29:00 PM  

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Reprieve

After two weeks of ignoring me, the folks at bloogle have fixed the screw up in the publishing of this blog. They still plan to do away with Blogger in any meaningful capacity for me, but their timeline has been pushed back until May. That means I can spend time during my week off messing with this thing, or I can put it on the back burner.

Yeah...guess which I chose?

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 3/18/2010 05:51:00 AM  

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Dearth Of A Blog

-Writers note:  Blogger/Google seems unable to publish this post at the moment which is ironic if not a bit of unintentional foreshadowing.

Okay, so here's the deal.  Blogger/Google is doing away with its FTP (file transfer protocol) publishing.  Who cares right?

Well I do, a little.
That's the way I publish this blog when I actually get around to writing something, which admittedly is a pretty rare event these days.

Blogger/Google (I'll just call it Blooggle) wants to "convert" this site to either one hosted by Blooggle or to a sub-domain...like blog.michaelmain.com.   It sounds like no big deal, but it's really a pain and it doesn't make much sense to me to put the blog in a sub-domain when there's nothing on the primary domain of any consequence (please refrain from value judgments about the blog's value).
Also it pisses me off a little...I mean I went with blogger some seven years ago and now I'm of no value to them.

So anyway, I have been looking at various "conversion tools" and they don't seem to work very well, if at all.  I was really thinking I'd just face facts and admit I'm not all that enamored with blogging and let this sucker die a slow death in the cloud of cyber rot, but now I'm consider another option.

What really makes changing blogging software (going to WordPress) a pain is trying to bring along all of my old posts/comments.  I have attempted a couple of conversions in the past and they didn't work.  Now I'm thinking maybe I'd be a lot less reluctant about this entire process if I simply set up a new site using Wordpress.  Technically I suppose the archived material would still exist - nothing ever really dies on the Internet -  but I'd be free not to have to try to bring it into the new set up.   It would be like moving to a new house and not having to pack up all the crap from the previous home.

This sounds very appealing...in fact I'd like to do it with our actual house now that I think about it.

I really can't imagine there are gaggles of people scouring my past wisdom anyway.  There's a good chance I will find some way to incorporate the archives much like the system I have set up currently, in fact I may be able to put in that exact coding...but I won't 'have' to...which seems to be key.

I know this is "inside baseball" sort of stuff, but then again I suppose this blog is too.  I have some time next week to tinker with things and that's my current thinking.  So either I'll do a rebirth of sorts...or I'll come up with a fabulous sign off...something original I'm sure.

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 3/10/2010 02:03:00 PM  

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Monday, March 08, 2010

Rube The Day

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 3/08/2010 05:24:00 AM  

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ash Wednesday Update/Ramblings

I love this time of year...it's a time of self examination and I'm pretty good at that...plus I like finding new ways to make room in my life for God.   This season is going to be interesting.  Amy and I have decided to do some church shopping again.    We've loved the church we've been part of for the past couple of years, but we don't feel like we've really connected with a community.   It's not the community's fault...it's probably ours.   So we've been visiting churches and I must admit our current church home is looking better.  I thought I could see cobwebs growing during the sermon we sat through on Sunday.

There are some other things  changing during this time.  The future of this blog is a little dicey.   Blogger is eliminating its support for the way I compose and edit this space.   They say they're going to provide some type of conversion tool.   They haven't yet.    I will likely roll with the punches.    I now tend to think of the writing here like I do dreams,  I don't try to examine it too closely or hang onto it any more.
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I usually "fast" during this time. I've been on a modified fast for a few weeks now, although I blew it on Valentine's day to take Amy and our youngest daughter out for steaks.   Come to think of it, I blew it this morning when I brought home breakfast tacos for Amy's birthday.  Yeah, I'm a big spender.

Oh get over it,  I brought home flowers too.

Happy Birthday my love!

That brings up something from my "I should mention this on the blog" file, which admittedly is stuffed full of stuff I haven't mentioned.   I recently received a copy of  "The Daniel Fast",  a book by Susan Gregory.

Susan sent it to me with a nice note.

A couple of  years ago I wrote about Susan who had contacted me about getting more traffic to her website.   That apparently worked out for her.  She wrote a book and mentioned me in the acknowledgments. 

Thanks Susan.


So that's an update of sorts... I know it's a little rambling.  I hope, but am not promising, to write more during this season.  As always I'm exploring my relationship with Christ, which is a daunting task.    I mean when something fails in that relationship it's pretty easy to figure out who to blame.

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 2/17/2010 04:23:00 PM  

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

It's Sports Illustrated Day!

The swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated is arriving in mailboxes.

Oh...I get a different sports magazine.

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©The Main Point by Michael Main 2/10/2010 07:24:00 AM  

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Dirty Politics

I've heard of politicians slinging mud.

This is the first political ad I've seen where the candidate has thrown dirt...from a graveyard.



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©The Main Point by Michael Main 2/04/2010 07:07:00 AM  

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