Welcome to the new and… well, downgraded… Irish Trojan’s Blog.
As promised, I’ve split the blog in two. The "old" blog remains archived on my WestHost dedicated server (and will soon be on a shared server, once I’ve downgraded my WestHost account), while the "new" blog — i.e., what you’re looking at right now — is actually located on TypePad’s servers. The fact that it appears at the domain brendanloy.com is just a bit of DNS sleight-of-hand; the new blog appears to be united with the rest of the site, including the old blog, but it’s really not. The end result is that the bulk of my traffic will go through TypePad’s servers, not WestHost’s, thus enabling me to stop throwing $260/month down the memory hole every month to keep the dedicated server up & running.
I picked TypePad over BlogSpot because I felt that its features were more robust in several ways. However, I may yet change my mind on that and switch to Blogspot. In fact, virtually everything about this "new" blog is subject to change, from the title and subtitle to the layout and design. Indeed, I intend to change a number of things. But I needed to make the switch now, before my September bill from WestHost comes due. So this will be a work-in-progress, as major changes to my blog invariably are.
Alas, one key feature that TypePad currently lacks is pagination, so you can’t look at "Page 2," "Page 3," etc. Supposedly, TypePad will be adding pagination sometime soon, but until then, if you fall behind on what I’ve blogged recently and want to catch up, you’ll have to use the daily or monthly archives. Sorry about that.
I did manage to hack together a recent comments page, displaying the 100 most recent comments. (Like the rest of the blog, it isn’t paginated, so you’re out of luck if you want to go past 100.) However, I haven’t yet figured out if I can do pop-up comments, which I know people like. For now, the "comments" link on each post on the homepage goes directly to the comment area on the permalink page. Again, sorry about that. I’ll try to fix it eventually.
I’m sure there will be some glitches and problems, so if you experience any technical difficulties, please leave a comment and/or shoot me an e-mail (irishtrojan [at] gmail.com) so I’ll know about it.
Oh, and if you want to read posts and/or leave comments on the "old" blog, you still can. Posts are at www.brendanloy.com/wp, and comments are at www.brendanloy.com/comments.
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August 27th, 2007 at 11:50:49 pm
Testing, testing.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:53:53 pm
Testing again
August 27th, 2007 at 11:55:07 pm
Welcome to the new digs :)
August 28th, 2007 at 12:00:24 am
Good blog title.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:35:17 am
Meet the new blog. Same as the old blog. No good trying to fool us Brendan :^)
August 28th, 2007 at 12:45:46 am
How apropos that you close one chapter of your blog/life at approximately the same time there is an eclipse of the moon at moonset!
So here’s the forecast from Cafe Astrology:
This month’s Full Moon is a Lunar Eclipse, with the Sun in Virgo opposing the Moon in Pisces. Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Virgo-Pisces service axis involved, and as part of the Virgo New Moon cycle that began on August 23rd, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants in our lives. We are pushed to find a balance between day-to-day functions and routines, physical health, and the need for order (Virgo) and vision, spiritual health, disorder, and the infinite (Pisces). Virgo rules the tools and techniques that we use to deal with day-to-day life, while Pisces rules the tools that we use to deal with our spiritual selves. Some sort of crisis (which can be a crisis of consciousness) or sudden awareness of a lack in our lives provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs within the context of the house polarity where the eclipse occurs in our natal charts. Relationships may be challenged, broken, or strengthened dramatically at this time. Our discovery is emotionally charged and dramatic. Epiphanies are likely at this time as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into positive action.
So here’s to you, Becky, Missy Loy and all those that join you on your wonderful life adventure.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:58:30 am
Rmmph :>
OKOK: Prettygood. :} “Continuity & Change”.
(btw I think that was part of the title of an academic tome about Soviet Russia under Krushchev back in the Day but Nevermind about that now. :) [No, no, not “Prettygood”; I mean the Other above locution :]
However, as all your Yesterdays continue to evolve into their worthy Tomorrows, I suspect that sooner or later ~ probably Sooner ~ you’re gonna be needing a brandNew (Relatively serious, contemporaneously Relevant, non-anagrammatic) blogtitle Altogether. / I mean, you won’t want to just substitute “…in Colorado”, or Wherever, et seq., ad infinitum. / Now, what such new blogname might be, no one Knows. (Well. Except Mee. :)
August 28th, 2007 at 1:13:16 am
Well! I see there is still no corrective for Random Capitalization Disorder. ;)
August 28th, 2007 at 1:27:08 am
Mr. Joe Loy,
[this is such a WONDERFUL name for a character in a Chinese movie! Please call the director Ang Lee and introduce yourself]
Why not call this blog LOYISH, he’s a Loy, lawyer and unique. What more do you need to say?
August 28th, 2007 at 2:05:07 am
L”oy”er, ha, thats funny
August 28th, 2007 at 2:33:06 am
If you change to blogspot, you’ll lose your loyal China-based readership. Um, at least until I figure out proxy servers again.
August 28th, 2007 at 2:36:29 am
Leanna says:
i went away to work and you grew up.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:32:37 am
You could always rename the site the Irish Trojan Volunteer? Maybe that would get too confusing. :-)
August 28th, 2007 at 11:29:41 am
Josh-
I posted the same thing on the other thread at almost the same time you did. Heh.
August 28th, 2007 at 1:00:47 pm
But he’s not a Volunteer. He attended USC and attended Notre Dame. He just happens to be in Tennessee
August 28th, 2007 at 1:11:22 pm
I don’t know. Tennessee is the Volunteer state. You don’t have to attend the University of Tennessee to be a Volunteer, just like you don’t have to attend IU to be a Hoosier if you live in Indiana.
August 28th, 2007 at 1:11:35 pm
I don’t know. Tennessee is the Volunteer state. You don’t have to attend the University of Tennessee to be a Volunteer, just like you don’t have to attend IU to be a Hoosier if you live in Indiana.
August 28th, 2007 at 1:12:01 pm
Sorry for the double-post. The system said it rejected the first one.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:19:45 pm
Agreed with Angrier. Irish Trojan Volunteer is quite appropriate.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:00:29 pm
I still don’t think he qualifies as a Volunteer. Most people don’t identify themselves with the state, or are not accepted as identified with the state unless they have atleast they have spent a non-trivial amount of time as a resident. Most Hoosiers would probably be dismissive of a recent resident laying claim to the title, i imagine the same is true of long tiem residents of Tennessee, and I don’t blame them.
Brendan can of course decide for himself, but the Irish Trojan part of his name was also a significant part of his identity and I don’t think that Volunteer applies in that manner, its not part of who he is, it just happens to be WEAR he is. Now if you wanted to change it to Irish Trojan in Volunteer-land, that might work.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:52:22 am
On the Other hand, in the unlikely event that he could somehow see his way clear in good Conscience to peeling away the “Trojan” part of it, he just might be On to something. ;>