Relying on third parties
As a computer geek I’ve always loved hosting everything myself. My website. My email. My blog. I’m a developer, so of course I like to tinker. The more I think about this the less it makes sense - all the time I spend mucking around keeping my basic things running could be time better spent building fun new things.
So, last year, when google made IMAP available, I moved my email there. I make use of appengine for hosting toy projects rather than having to set up and maintain additional apps on my own servers. I use twitter, because, well, what’s the point of it without the direct connections? Also I’m not sure I’d worry too much about the data loss if it disappeared (the contacts yes, but I’m sure we’d all find a way around that.)
So now begins an attempt at trusting someone else with my blog content. Something I care a lot more about preserving. I’ll see how well I get on here, and then export everything from my SimpleLog blog as HTML and have one less application to worry about.
