A return to Blogger

After using Drupal for a few years to run my web presence, I'm back to Blogger. But it's augmented with CNAME records, Swurl and Google Sites, resulting in the following link-me-dos:

• www.twindx.co.uk - Main Irregular Shed site, for me to populate with things as I see fit - made with Google Sites
• blog.twindx.co.uk - The best way to experience the ramblings du jour. Powered by Swurl and sucking in Blogger, Flickr, Delicious (I prefered del.icio.us myself), YouTube, Last.FM and a bit more. The old Feedburner RSS feed has nothing on the Swurl one (when the Swurl one is working)...
  
• blogger.twindx.co.uk - Yeah, a slightly confusing 'other' URL. This is for the Blogger site itself and is the place to head to for comments that matter (Swurl's comments feel a little... lightweight.)

The attentitive amongst you will notice that these are .co.uk URLs instead of .com... well done! I picked up the .co.uk domain so that I could set things up in my time instead of having to take down the existing .com and then muddle something together. In the coming weeks, the .com URLs will match the .co.uk ones, but first I need to come up with a cunning automated way of backing up the important tat on the Drupal site.

Other attentive people will notice I'm putting a lot of trust in Google for my online presence. Yes, I know, they screw up from time to time, and there's nothing like running your own server. There's also nothing like having free time to do it in, something that, as the father of a 2½ year old, I've learnt the hard way. I also know that any company that has "do no evil" as its ethos is 100% guaranteed to end up utterly evil; I can only hope that they don't set up a data centre powered by crushed dreams and unicorn placenta.

That's it for now. I'll continue to tinker in whatever time I get to make it all ridiculously splendid.