Cross-Posted

Way back in 2005 I started this blog (as discussed here) as part of a trend among Korner friends. Then later in 2006 I was persuaded onto LiveJournal to follow the gossip among choristers. Initially I did longer-form writing here (as I still do) while my LJ was for shorter and cuter posts. Eventually however Facebook became my medium for pithy stuff and I made the content of both this blog and my LJ identical from 2009. But that has now changed.

Recently the ownership of LiveJournal changed hands and as a result its terms-and-conditions are subject to the laws of a multi-national state that is a tad too authoritarian for my liking. Maybe this change would never have a direct impact on me. However many friends feel (i) that you cannot be too careful and (ii) that it is ethically better to distance ourselves from this particular world power. And so I have closed that other account.

However there was content on it that I wanted to keep and so I went on a screen-capturing frenzy to get its unique content (or at any rate the stuff that was still of interest). This included many of the attendant comments posted by others (which had always been set to public visibility). Then I pasted many comments to corresponding blog posts here.

This act of wariness also fits my other objective of having a simpler life online. As a result of this I will never have to write 'cross-posted here' anymore. There is still one more thing I have to do however and that is remove all those links to a now non-existent account (because broken links are a form of messiness that vexes me).