Barb posted her thoughts on blog writing. In particular, the fact that many women bloggers have a male writing style. I don’t really know what that means. Perhaps it has to do with more journalistic prose, bereft of modifiers.
Anyway, I decided to put my manhood on the line and checked a couple of my longer posts (more than 500 words is recommended).
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
At least I was this morning.
One of the best resources you’ll find about general blogging issues is Stuff about Blogging. Jerry is a fellow Texan I met through my Texas Bloggers web site, and he lives close by in Port Lavaca. His site is now listed in my links column, and it would be a good one for you to check regularly, too. In fact, if you use WordPress and are considering the upgrade to v1.5 you should go see what he has to say on the topic. He also has a post on bandwidth which may help reduce your hosting costs.
I think I’m snake-bit on blogging. I had hosting problems before, then comment spam issues which shut me down on that host, then moved to WordPress and a new hosting service (because I couldn’t install the database on my own), then too much traffic which took me over my limit and clogged email. Then, once I figured out how to effectively combat comment spam, I ran into the issue that took me down this time.
I am on venompages.com hosting and Kate was establishing her own service through reselling. I’ve had no problems up to this point. She and her husband just returned to CONUS from Hawaii, bought a house, then she disappeared. All this happened at about the same time as the prime host changed out servers–the one our stuff was on. So, DNS nameservers got changed without our knowing about it and they shut down the old server.
Which brings me back to Kate. At first I was really mad. Then, when nobody responded to emails I began to get a little worried. Did something happen to her or a member of the family? I still don’t know.
At any rate, I am going to try to move this site to Blake Farenthold’s ISP. He takes care of Jim Lago’s site, and I like the idea of having everything local. I was originally going to put my local news site there, but Blake was toying with the idea of running for the city council and I didn’t want to get into a potential area for conflict charges against him. Now that he hasn’t, the door is open once again.
My hosting service disappeared without warning. Now I’m two weeks behind. Better than losing four months’ worth, I guess.
More to follow. Bogey and his lovely bride are proud parents, but very tired right now.
Violet Anne Lifford, 7lb 13oz.
I got the phone call at about 0430 today. Grannie hit the road to Austin within 30 minutes. I’ll wait to hear more info, then follow for the event.
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