After another dmca takedown by blogspot's automated goons, I'm gonna try switching to publish this blog at my own howmarvellous.com domain, which may or may not stop those occasional irritations... and if not - it's Wordpress time.
In theory... you'll notice no difference at all, save an initial blogger redirect page & the domain name in your browser - in fact by the time you read this, the change may be done & dusted (fat chance!); but please bear with me if things go awry, either here or via the rss feed.
I'm strangely nervous about it - very odd given how I love a challenge... much more going round than just that, I guess; & hmm, I tried it just now & the blogspot address redirected, but got a page not found error - do I have to wait longer for the CNAME record to propogate?, do that first, wait a day, then change the blogspot setting? - I'm slightly lost, and I don't like it one bit.
Two versions of this Jimmy Webb song to start with - far as I can tell, first recorded by Johnny Rivers in 1967, with Webb producing & arranging the album - Rewind.
♫ Do What You Gotta Do - Meg Baird
Dear Companion (2007)
buy
♫ Do What You Gotta Do - Okkervil River
Golden Opportunities Mixtape (2007)
free download from pitchfork | myspace
♫ We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals (UK version)
7" single - 1965 on Columbia
buy
♫ Things Will Change - Dawn Chorus
The Disappearing Dawn Chorus (2003)
free n legal download - here along with their 'Second Dawn Chorus' album | myspace
♫ Gotta Cheer Up Now - Cotton Jones
Paranoid Cocoon
buy from Suicide Squeeze | myspace
♫ Something's Gotta Give - Sammy Davis Jr
written by Johnny Mercer for Daddy Longlegs (1955)
buy
Already pushing it with The Animals, I don't want Warner on my case again - so here's a Sparks video that they (wmg) haven't been able to get knocked off youtube... yet.
In theory... you'll notice no difference at all, save an initial blogger redirect page & the domain name in your browser - in fact by the time you read this, the change may be done & dusted (fat chance!); but please bear with me if things go awry, either here or via the rss feed.
I'm strangely nervous about it - very odd given how I love a challenge... much more going round than just that, I guess; & hmm, I tried it just now & the blogspot address redirected, but got a page not found error - do I have to wait longer for the CNAME record to propogate?, do that first, wait a day, then change the blogspot setting? - I'm slightly lost, and I don't like it one bit.
Two versions of this Jimmy Webb song to start with - far as I can tell, first recorded by Johnny Rivers in 1967, with Webb producing & arranging the album - Rewind.
♫ Do What You Gotta Do - Meg Baird
Dear Companion (2007)
buy
♫ Do What You Gotta Do - Okkervil River
Golden Opportunities Mixtape (2007)
free download from pitchfork | myspace
♫ We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals (UK version)
7" single - 1965 on Columbia
buy
♫ Things Will Change - Dawn Chorus
The Disappearing Dawn Chorus (2003)
free n legal download - here along with their 'Second Dawn Chorus' album | myspace
♫ Gotta Cheer Up Now - Cotton Jones
Paranoid Cocoon
buy from Suicide Squeeze | myspace
♫ Something's Gotta Give - Sammy Davis Jr
written by Johnny Mercer for Daddy Longlegs (1955)
buy
Already pushing it with The Animals, I don't want Warner on my case again - so here's a Sparks video that they (wmg) haven't been able to get knocked off youtube... yet.
Andy, Sent u an email. It doesn't appear that the redirect is working right now. When I made the change I didn't do a redirect and lost my blogspot address within 24 hours. So, it is probably important that you get the redirect to work right. Not sure how to do that. I will try to help you all I can. Got a Dr. appt. to go to at 1pm (my time). Sent u an email, reply back with where you are at in the process.
ReplyDeleteDavid
Oh I so very sorry to hear and I wish I knew how to help redirect.. sigh
ReplyDeletelame to state prob. but you've saved it of course
via export to disk... , I'm glad merz has piped in albeit he's not sure re:.
I expect (hope) you shall leave this blog intact name etc.. umm I love your ♫blog thanks for sharing, lovely collection today too, if i can help..
cheer up love, a better day is round the bend..
xo ~ xo
ah ha! - I thought merz used a simple custom domain, but turns out he publishes to ftp instead - I musta misread/misunderstood a little way back. Makes perfect sense now I know the facts, but it was baffling me how it could work as I thought it did.
ReplyDeletethanks for the warmth - most appreciated here.
Sorry to hear you're dealing with this nonsense. Having your own domain/server should minimize the problem in significant way. I'm by no means a master of the technicalities involved, but if you need help I'll do my best!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sean - I'm stuck on getting feed based snippets like over on the right, here - but blimey - just getting a blogger blogroll into wordpress has taken way too much time - it woulda been faster to copy/paste manually than pursue the 'quick n easy' export/import route.
ReplyDeleteprolly going with wordpress, anyway
ta for the thoughts y'all - and yeah, a better day is round the bend... to be kept firmly in mind.
Andy xx
All great music here and how wonderful of you to
ReplyDeletegive them refreshed recognition! all the best with the move, see you there. xx