iBlog 1.4.5 I've Refound You 


How and why one blogger overcame technological snafus to reenter the blogosphere. 

If you read the last blog entry, you know of the downward spiraling, self-pitying mess for which I blamed Apple, iBlog and ibloggers.net. This was my own personal techno-market crisis. Don't they say, "Once burned, twice shy." My blogging credit was frozen. I turned to other techno-outlets for solace. I listened to every entry of Dr. Ginger Campbell's Brain Science Podcast. I bought One-To-One lessons from Apple and learned how to set up my own music studio using a Tascam 144 digital computer interface, GarageBand, and my PowerBook. I played around with FaceBook and MySpace and that pale substitute for iBlog blogging that comes with iWeb. At least something still works, I thought.

Then one day a couple of weeks ago, I discovered that a church friend had a really neat blog of her own called Learning To Step Lightly. It was even a wordpress blog! I made a couple of comments to her blog, and this brought back memories of all the fun I'd had blogging. Then it hit me. Of course! I could blog again, anytime I wanted to. I mean, here is this faithful iMac G4, purring like a kitten every since 2003 when I bought it. Still running under Tiger, not Leopard, so that I can still use an older version of Fireworks. Once, under warranty, Apple even did about $1000 of repairs for free. Here is that trusty old iBlog 1.4.5 sitting on this old Mac, with all my 3 years of blog entries on it. Do I really have to pack my PowerBook off to the Bread Company to blog? Of course not. I'm just being like the kid, who wants chocolate ice cream for dessert or nothing at all. I don't have to go through the agony of converting to wordpress! I don't need no #$%& support from Sarat Kongara or icerabbit. I'm back online with spine.

iBlog 1.4.5 is dead. Long live iBlog 1.4.5, or whatever blogging tool comes along to help me express my thoughts.

And one little postscript . . . This is more than just a personal journal that happens to be online. There is something about knowing that you ARE writing on the wall of the world that makes it different. How different it is, I don't know yet, but I do know that it is SIGNIFICANTLY different! 

Posted: Fri - October 24, 2008 at 09:14 AM          

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