Well my lovelies, further investigations into, & thoughts about, shifting this blog away from the grasp of our benevolent & wise google, have led me to the conclusion that there's no simple way to just get 'everything' as-is shuffled over somewhere else. So (snipping the reasons - see comments) I think wordpress is the way to go, & at some future point you'll be automatically directed over to howmarvellous.com, which is already up n running, but awaiting my tender & lavish attention as regards colour, layout & the swanny pic.
**dull tech alert** the main thing I'll miss from blogger, is those dandy snapshots of recently updated blogs, over on the right - so if any of you geniuses know how to get that in wordpress... you'll earn my undying gratitude & more besides.
We'd better have some music eh? - gotta start with Sammy Davis; after pinching an album yesterday for 'Something's Gotta Give', I so enjoyed hearing this one again, which was a favourite from a long-lost mixtape I made for myself, perhaps twenty years ago. It's another show tune - this time from The Pajama Game, intended to be sung by a man to himself, via a tape recorder, which goes some way to explaining the happy tone, despite not-exactly cheery lyrics. No special sentiment for including this - it's just damned fine.
♫ Hey There - Sammy Davis Jr
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While I'm on a slightly more personal thing - rather than the thin pretence that I've got my finger on any kind of musical pulse - I completely skipped the booze last night... highly unusual. If this tune sounds kinda familiar - we've a nice connection to Okkervil River, whose cover 'Do What You Gotta Do' I included yesterday.
♫ If You Stay Sober - Shearwater
The Dissolving Room (2001)
out of print, but get a couple more songs free here | Shearwater website
Let's keep the connections flowing - Adler and Ross wrote 'Hey There' above, and another from 'The Pajama Game' that you might recall... here in very cheesy, over-castanetted form, by the Archie Bleyer band
♫ Hernando's Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
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Ha ha - it's kinda bad, but I love it so much - a childhood memory y'see?.
No immediate connection I can think of, beyond the bleedin' obvious - but it'll please at least one very occasional commenter & Esther Phillips fan. This is a Johnny Nash composition - and pretty darned sexy with it - mmm M~ !
♫ Let's Move & Groove - Esther Phillips
Alone Again Naturally (1972)
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Finally - a song from the year before that (1971) by one of my absolute musical loves - Dory Previn. 'Going Home' is a sorta medley of two other songs from the very same album - 'Mythical Kings & Iguanas'... the title track, and a repeated line from 'Lady With The Braid' - which us just sooo divine. (it starts very quietly, btw)
♫ Going Home - Dory Previn
Mythical Kings & Iguanas (1971)
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Can I leave it there? - frankly No, so throwing caution to the wind - here are those two songs - Splendid indeed.
♫ Mythical Kings & Iguanas - Dory Previn
♫ Lady With The Braid - Dory Previn
**dull tech alert** the main thing I'll miss from blogger, is those dandy snapshots of recently updated blogs, over on the right - so if any of you geniuses know how to get that in wordpress... you'll earn my undying gratitude & more besides.
We'd better have some music eh? - gotta start with Sammy Davis; after pinching an album yesterday for 'Something's Gotta Give', I so enjoyed hearing this one again, which was a favourite from a long-lost mixtape I made for myself, perhaps twenty years ago. It's another show tune - this time from The Pajama Game, intended to be sung by a man to himself, via a tape recorder, which goes some way to explaining the happy tone, despite not-exactly cheery lyrics. No special sentiment for including this - it's just damned fine.
♫ Hey There - Sammy Davis Jr
buy
While I'm on a slightly more personal thing - rather than the thin pretence that I've got my finger on any kind of musical pulse - I completely skipped the booze last night... highly unusual. If this tune sounds kinda familiar - we've a nice connection to Okkervil River, whose cover 'Do What You Gotta Do' I included yesterday.
♫ If You Stay Sober - Shearwater
The Dissolving Room (2001)
out of print, but get a couple more songs free here | Shearwater website
Let's keep the connections flowing - Adler and Ross wrote 'Hey There' above, and another from 'The Pajama Game' that you might recall... here in very cheesy, over-castanetted form, by the Archie Bleyer band
♫ Hernando's Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
buy
Ha ha - it's kinda bad, but I love it so much - a childhood memory y'see?.
No immediate connection I can think of, beyond the bleedin' obvious - but it'll please at least one very occasional commenter & Esther Phillips fan. This is a Johnny Nash composition - and pretty darned sexy with it - mmm M~ !
♫ Let's Move & Groove - Esther Phillips
Alone Again Naturally (1972)
buy
Finally - a song from the year before that (1971) by one of my absolute musical loves - Dory Previn. 'Going Home' is a sorta medley of two other songs from the very same album - 'Mythical Kings & Iguanas'... the title track, and a repeated line from 'Lady With The Braid' - which us just sooo divine. (it starts very quietly, btw)
♫ Going Home - Dory Previn
Mythical Kings & Iguanas (1971)
buy
Can I leave it there? - frankly No, so throwing caution to the wind - here are those two songs - Splendid indeed.
♫ Mythical Kings & Iguanas - Dory Previn
♫ Lady With The Braid - Dory Previn
Ahh, the ins & outs of where to go & how to get there : which I wrote earlier, but then the silly iMac had a (thankfully) rare fit, requiring a hard shutdown.
ReplyDeleteTurns out I can't publish via blogger to ftp on my own domain w/o scrapping all the links & such, b/c blogger force you to switch to a 'classic' template, which loses much of the functionality, especially the lil snippets of other sites, which I'm fond of, and people do use.
I could go the blogger to 'custom domain' route, but far as I can see (tried it) I'd need an empty domain that didn't point anywhere... only a few $, but the pages would still be hosted by blogger & therefore possibly more open to the dmca notices I'm keen to avoid. Of course, they may still come, but will go to the hosting firm (presumably) who'll hopefully be less "we'll kick you off w/o warning" than blogspot are reputed to be.
Is there a simple 'pick your fonts & colours' thing for wordpress? - blogger seems way easier in some respects.
Righto - fiddling to be done, seeya at the new site.
Andy
Well, looks like you've made a good decision based on the situation at hand. I think in the long run Wordpress will be a lot better than blogger. I almost attempted a conversion from Blogger to Wordpress but never followed through. But all the things I've read about Wordpress tells me it is very powerful and nice to use. Plus, there are a lot of 'widgets' out there available for Wordpress. I think there should also be a ton of Wordpress templates that you can 'customize' to your liking. Should be good. Best of luck with this Mate and let me know if you need any help.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
David
ta David - it's just a shock to have to deal with so many themes that require css to change 'em - like old-style blogger, & how such a lot just waste page width - I just grabbed one that Tart uses & at least that guides ya thru the changes - not quite a color picker, but better than nothing at all. Need to spend a little time simply to get black everywhere & text all the same color - blimey!, still; it'll come right in the end. Certainly ain't easy-peasy like new blogger in that respect.
ReplyDeleteNot seen a widget yet to do the snips from other blogs - it's a new world really & because I'm used to another one, not immediately obvious how to get around it, despite the plaudits.
Ha! - when I've cracked it - we'll get you moved over eh?
Mmm and yet another lovely and heart warming post today lovely music choices as per usual.
ReplyDeleteI love Shearwater btw..
No there is no 'pick your fonts & colours' thing for wordpress - certainly one of the best parts of blogger for me def. easier.
Pages on WP need a bit of attention or so I find
Placing the sticky on the post you want to show on front page.. oo I am confusing myself I hope not you too.
I agree the snippets from other sites on the sidebar are nice I <3 them.
There is the text widget perhaps with your html knowledge..
Oh and the colour on WP, the black is so umm dingy not rich and dark like here but you prob can fix that with css... but anyway, no doubt you'll keep plugin away at it still again I do hope you hold on to this blog. hugxxx
"Not seen a widget yet to do the snips from other blogs "
ReplyDeleteThe rss widgets on wordpress are similar no little
images though.
thanks for the tips & support - always great to get. Gotta look into the rss widget, tho' surely someone's already copied it fer wp?
ReplyDeleteanonyM~ - wordpress.com is fairly restrictive on changes, whereas the self-hosted version you can do (& break!) whatever you want, with varying degrees of ease, depending on the theme author.
Currently, I've used (not pinched - ha!) a theme called
atahualpa332 & then blatted thru all the options going 'black, black, black, orangey, blue, Black, Black Black!" ha ha, which is surprisingly time consuming when you don't know your way, but that theme does at least guide you through the changes & provide color-pickers (mostly) that behave most of the time, although copy/paste color values is easier really, but nice to 'see' the color at a glance too.
Soo, that theme ain't as easy as blogger to mess with, but little or no css knowledge required, and nice reset to default button on each option page.
gotta get the sidebar things sorted, colors still tweaky, but I'm gettin' there.... tho a lil more enthusiasm from me in general would be good eh.