A change is gonna come. Respectful Insolence is moving.

A change is gonna come. Respectful Insolence is moving.Well,QEDCon is over, and thisbox of blinky lights is on its way back across the pond to its home in the US, having had an excellent time imbibing skepticism from its (mostly) British and European partners in skepticism.Before I left, I made a somewhat cryptic remark about " major changes " to this blog coming up. Well, thecat ' s out of the bag, so to speak. Basically, Scienceblogs is shutting down at the end of the month. I still remain grateful for the opportunity Scienceblogs offered me. I wouldn ' t be as prominent as I am now without it. However, unfortunately, Scienceblogs has barely existed as an entity for a few years now. Unfortunately, Scienceblogs isn ' t just shutting down, it ' s going away completely.As a result, I ' m now in a frantic race to transfer all the old material to a new host. Sadly, I expect a lot of problems, because I have nearly 12 years worth of material to transfer, over 5,000 posts and 360,000 comments. Indeed, I ' ve already encountered them. Let ' s just say that WordPress ' export/import tools are not as...robust...as they could be.Transferring the blog is going to be a big task, because it ' s necessary to break up the transfer into many small chunks, and then each import frequently requires multiple tries to get everything transferred. As a result, I ' ve decided that I can ' t do this properly and still produce my usual level of quality output. So I ' m going to stop blogging for howe...

Source: Respectful Insolence - October 16, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs