“If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.”
“Movement In a New Diretion Helps You Find New Cheese.”
-Spencer Johnson, M.D., in Who Moved My Cheese?
If you’re reading this post, that means you’ve successfully made the transition from my old blog at WordPress.com to my new domain here. I thank you for your continued readership and support. I also apologize for doing this with no warning in advance. I fully intended to transition to capsun.org over the course of several days. However, the opportunity presented itself to get it all up and running yesterday, so I hope you understand that I had to jump at it.
First, let me say Mahalo Nui Loa, Thank You Very Much, Domo Arigato Gozaimasu, and Danke Schoen to my good friend, Sid Savara. Haven’t I ever told you that I know people? Not only is he hosting this domain, he also helped me for a solid four hours yesterday to get everything up and running. Even my new email address is working! I guess it’s part of what we do for friends. Sid is available to do the same for you and your site – for a fee, of course.
Just about everything should look the same. Don’t worry, it’s the same blog, written by the same author – me!. In fact, all of my posts from WordPress.com have been transferred here at capsun.org. The biggest change is the new image header you see at the top of Capsun’s Corner. Gone is the Aloha Airlines plane; here to take it’s place is a beautiful shot of Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park. It holds special meaning to me because that was my old stomping ground and because I actually took that picture myself. If you really explored the sidebar at my old site, you’ll also notice that the “Popular Posts” and “Capsun’s Controls” widgets are gone. The former because I didn’t download and transfer it here, the latter for security reasons.
I’m still doing some tweaking. I will most likely change my theme, probably by the end of this month. It also displays slightly smaller here than it did at WordPress.com, but I hope to fix that, too. As much as I love MistyLook, I’m looking for something that might be a little easier to read and won’t display full posts, but rather the first paragraph or so. In the back of the house, I’ve installed Feedburner, but still need to get it working properlywhich works as it’s supposed to, as of 9:30 this morning. I also have Google Analytics and it’s running just fine; I hope a lot of you come to visit so I’ll have a plethora of data to review.
I need to decide if and how I might monetize this site. With my new online home, I have new “rent” to pay. And maybe I can finally give in to the intimations of a certain someone. I don’t need to do this for income replacement, but I do want to make this site revenue neutral. It will be my homegrown version of PAYGO – how’s that for a political reference?
So to all of my old readers who have made the transition: Mahalo for moving with me. And to any new readers: Welcome and mahalo for visiting. I look forward to keeping all of this up. 2009 is certainly proving to be a year with lots to talk about.
Mahalo!
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