“Captain Literal”.NET

I’m moving my blog away from Windows Live Spaces to CaptainLiteral.NET, so if anybody has subscribed to my feed, then you’d best update it to point at http://feeds.feedburner.com/CaptainLiteral. I’ve also set-up a FeedBurner thing for my RSS, so people won’t be hit by changes in the future.

Why Captain Literal? The guys as work call me Captain Literal because lunchtime conversations’ can go something like this:
Dan: “You can’t reboot a computer on a plane, it’ll crash,” followed by a hand movement to indicate that a plane would fall from the sky.
Mark (aka Captain Literal): “That’s why life-critical systems such as planes have multiple fail-safe’s on them. The space shuttle for example has multiple computers and they all vote on what’s going to happen. You could reboot one of those with no problems and the shuttle wouldn’t spiral off into outer-space.”
So that’s it, I have been nick-named Captain Literal and now Mark really is CaptainLiteral.NET.

Before I go out on a rant and document why I’m moving away from Spaces, I first need to thank Ashleigh (http://www.nakedcleaner.com) for firstly, hosting CaptainLiteral.NET. Secondly, for forcing me to setup CaptainLiteral.NET. And thirdly, for spending time last night actually setting up CaptainLIteral.NET – thanks Ashleigh.

And now for the fun bit – why am I leaving Windows Live Spaces?

Live Spaces has some things that merely annoying – these are the things that one can live with. But it also has some things that are very annoying – things that, when realised, encourage you to drop Windows Live Spaces and go look for some other blog provisioning service or friend to host for you.

The merely annoying stuff (in no particular order):

• The statistics page is so badly laid out, it’s next to meaningless. For example, every page begins with the name of the blog the stats page chops the page title, so all I see if somebody viewed a page on my blog followed by … - very useful!.
• You have to read the refer URL to work out what people searched for to find you on the stats page.
• You can pay to get rid of adverts by subscribing to the hotmail advanced package, but don’t get any other features for doing so (i.e. being able to change the page layout more than anybody else.) for somebody like myself, who doesn’t even have a hotmail account, this is never going to work!
• Trackbacks don’t seem to work like they should.

But the killer, the one that got me to move blog was that fact that you can’t upload non-image files! So when I posted Sudoku vs. PowerShell last week and wanted to upload 3 simple text files, I couldn’t! again, Ashleigh came to the rescue and allowed me to host the files on his other blog (http://www.f1-blog.co.uk) – thanks again Ashleigh.

Anyway, now that’s off my chest, I hope to see you over at CaptainLIteral.NET – where I intend to blog more often as I’ve realised that I actually have quite a lot to say in the technology space. I will not be posting personal posts as I really don’t have an interesting life unlike professionals (aka celebrities.)

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