(Update on 19th October 2014)
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Yes, it is time to say goodbye to Blogger...
It has offered me a good platform to broadcast my views, my hobbies, my pictures, etc. to my friends in cyberspace...
If so, why 'goodbye'?
Well, the 'spark' is that silly thing called Google +1...
I had not paid any attention to it initially but it kept 'pestering' me to sign up...
So, one day, I casually signed up without reading what's in store...
After all, it is Blogger that we are dealing with here... they can't be that 'wrong', can they?
Or so I thought...
Yes, they said that with +1, all comments will be taken care of in one location... how nice, I imagined...
Imagine my horror when one blogger-friend told me that to comment on the blog posts, she needs to have an account in Google +1...
Yes, two or three new readers with +1 accounts commented... and I am happy that they did...
(Please accept my apologies as I honestly am quite lost as to how to reply to these comments through this +1 thingy.)
But, Blogger yanked off that comment moderation feature that I was used to... and I was not planning to spend more precious time playing games with Blogger on this...
So, what next?
Yes, get the heck out of this so-difficult-to-understand-and-handle +1 thingy...
Now, in Japan, I might be mistaken, but if a member of the 'yakuza' wanted out, he might have to chop off his little finger to present to the boss as a sign of 'regret'..
And what did +1 say to me if I decided to get out?
'All the comments will be deleted'...
Wonderful, said I... (and, with profound apologies to all who spent time to kindly comment on my posts)... so be it...
My first post with Blogger was in 28th October 2004...
Thank you Blogger, for all those nice things... but it is Sayonara for now...
To all my friends, I am bringing my horses to Wordpress...
The new url is here...
Would be a delight to see you there...
