About six months ago I announced on one of my other blogs that I was releasing blargen.com.  Truth be told, taking care of a newborn, moving to an unfamiliar town on short notice then having to spend two hours on the road every weekday as a commuter, all while keeping up on my reading, current events and other various studies;  it leaves little time for web development and webbloggery.

So far I’ve installed the basic framework of the site, but need a few more doodads and widgets to get things working properly.  Then there’s the matter of plugging in the site design into the current crude framework.  Needless to say, it’s a long road ahead.

What I have been able to accomplish in my limited time is transfer the articles from my various blogs to this one.  Because I had multiple source to draw from, I didn’t feel comfortable packing up the databases and importing them into the current system.  No sir, here we’re going for database integrity, which means not mucking up the system with files from my old host.

Which, in turn, brings me the main reason I was prompted to migrate from there to here.  Downtime.  Friggin’ downtime.  It was a good, locally-managed place that had much to offer in the way of networking with other local bloggers, but hell, I’ve been paying for this hosting space for months and hadn’t done anything with it.

At any rate, I’ve included the original posting date at the beginning of each transferred article.  The major downside of not doing a direct export is losing the comments associated with each article.  There was plenty of supportive material, plus some informative back-and-forth with my visitors.  There were also comments from random people who I didn’t expect feedback from, such as one of the friends of Rakiem Campbell in response to the post Of Bricks and Ethics.  This type of response is gold in terms of feedback, and really connects the subject matter with the actual event it’s based on.  Stuff like that is priceless;  it adds depth that my words cannot match.  But, it’s gone, and I’m afraid there was no other way.

I have several people interested in participating in a regular webcast show.  One has radio experience, another has studio experience, and both are knowledgeable beyond that.  I guess that makes me the political/tech guy, a role I’m not unfamiliar with.  We’re currently in the process of setting up a test run to see how things go.  If there’s enough chemistry, we just might make it a regular thing, and it’ll be posted on blargen.com.

I suppose that’s all for now.  If you’ve a little patience, stick around.  Good things are going on here.