KZBlog

Thanks to a dear friend, KZBlog now has its own home, KZBlog.net.

Blogsome is a solid blogging site that works fine. I have had no real complaints with it. But having my own domain makes me look cooler, lets me upload stuff to my own site, and also gives me access to the full version of Word Press, which has a lot more features and toys to play with. I think I’ve got things more or less where I want them, but if you have any suggestions, I’m open to them and I would greatly appreciate any feedback on problems you have with the site. It looks good in the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox but I don’t have IE on here or older browsers, so I’d love to know if the layout looks as good for everyone.

Please remember to update your feeds and blogrolls and boomarks. The archiving system for both sites is the same, so if you had a link or bookmark to a specific post you wanted to keep, just replace “kazakhstan.blogsome.com” with “kzblog.net”. I flatter myself to think people find my posts useful enough to bookmark them!

I also have to apologize for the fact that the posts and comments didn’t migrate smoothly, so I’ve spent the past 4 days basically copying and pasting every post from the old site. But I don’t have the energy to copy all your lovely comments. So sorry loyal readers. You’re not being censored, I’m just lazy!

Doing all that work made me aware of a few fun facts about KZBlog. The first post, Send in the Clowns”, was in November of 2005 making this blog 4 years old (yesterday in fact was its birthday!) That post is still in the top 10 most popular of all time, probably because it was about Borat and had the word “slut” in it!.

There have been a total of 370 posts on blogsome and 468 comments. That’s 1 post every 3.94 days and 1.26 comments per post. There was also approximately one typo per post on average! Not too bad for a blog on an obscure country and one with huge silent gaps and then 3 posts in a row!

EDIT: If someone with a paid account at Live Journal wanted to create a syndicated feed for the new site, I would be eternally grateful.