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Beginning to Migrate (some) Content to the NEW Doug Alone

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  Beginning to Migrate (some) Content to the NEW Doug Alone I have had the idea since early on in this blog to possibly move it from this sort of hosted/third-party set-up to something more owned by me. This past week, I started to make this a reality: https://www.dougalone.com There are a lot of reasons behind this but let us start with caveat. I have exactly one real complaint about Blogger/Blogger and otherwise most of the decisions are about my creative process itself.  The One Real Complaint The newer Blogger themes tend to be plenty responsive as they are but there is still some degree of back-end handling that tries to serve up a "mobile-friendly" version of the page [note, this is based on looking into the errors and messages sent, I could be wrong]. This is the exact same page but Google, itself, treats this as a website trying to share multiple copies of the same content and basically passes this off as a reason to not index the site.  After over a year of havin...
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Waking Back up the The Doug Alone

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  Ok, so that picture is a sunset and not a sunrise. This means it does not quite  work for a post about returning to blogging after a couple of months of moving and general hiatus, but it's also just a picture to celebrate the move to a new country and mostly  pulling it off. Starting to learn the language(s) more and more but there's a long way to go until I internalize it. Getting several of the accounts set-up. Just generally learning which shop sells what and what brand names I need to look out for. That sort of thing. Next Monday, September 1, I'll kick off a The GLOW  campaign that I started playing on pen and paper while staying in one 90%-empty house and played a bit more while staying in a different 90%-empty house. The "session-0-slash-launch" post will explain why it showed up. Probably on Friday, at least that's the plan (September 5) should kick back off Bleak  + Pearl  season 2 after several months. Both of those posts were basically complete...
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