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January 7, 2005

moving house

really, moving blog.

I'm thinking of moving this weblog to another hosting service. SaraLaughs will stay here, but the weblog itself will live elsewhere, with a hosting service who will take care of installing and upgrading the Movable Type software so I don't have to think about it.

Now, I'm not sure about this yet, and so it would probably be good to get some input from you. Assuming you have to do no work (except changing your bookmark, if you have one for this weblog), are there things you'd like to see that would make your stops here more useful? For example: if I do move, I'll take that opportunity to fine tune categories, and divide "research and craft" up into topic areas (writing sex scenes, for example) so there's an easy link to all posts covering that subject (excuse the pun) in the right sidebar.

I'm also wondering how people feel about registering in order to leave a comment. The protective measures I have in place to keep spammers out are only partially effective, and I still have to do a lot of maintenance. I could turn off comments on older posts, but that would be unfortunate. Today, for example, there were some good comments on the writing good bad-sex entry (508) that would have been blocked if I went that far to keep spammers out. I know people are reluctant to sign up -- I am reluctant to sign up -- in even one more place, so my inclination is not to turn on this feature. But I wanted to get some input on this.

And, if anybody has specific ideas on where you'd like my blatherings about writing conflict scenes to go, I wish you'd speak up. Please.