Important Announcement

With Yahoo 360 closing their blog system, I've tested several options yesterday and today.

1) I've moved all the original Yahoo 360 postings to the new Yahoo Profile page. However, this is not really functional as a blog. It is not searchable, there are no keywords left, some of the photos were lost in the transition in blog entries that had multiple photos, and it is not easy to navigate to older postings. There doesn't seem to be a way to get straight to the blog either. I will leave everything here as an archive but I will not post new blog entries here.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

2) Yahoo 360 allows one to move the 360 blog to other systems. I tried Wordpress but it doesn't allow me to move all the old posts. I have too much old information so I can't move everything. I'm also having trouble with the download/upload which isn't working properly. I will delete the Wordpress blog I started. It has nice features but it isn't going to be a good replacement for Yahoo 360 due to the size limits. So that's not an option.

3) I'm going to try to download the old Yahoo 360 material to Blogspot. So far I'm not having any luck with this. I uploaded to Yahoo Profile ok but it looks as if Blogspot only will upload .xml files and Yahoo 360 downloads material as txt files. The incompatable formats are a problem, but I'll continue to attempt this.

4) It looks like the best option for now is to just have one blog at Blogspot. So effective tomorrow I will no longer post messages to Yahoo 360 and my only blog will be the one located at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com

I am very sorry for the problems this will cause Blog readers but I can't make anything else work except Blogspot. We'll have the old material archived at Yahoo Profiles but Blogspot will be the only blog from now on.

Jane/Chilly Hollow

Old Yahoo 360 blog archived at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

While I'm Busy Switching Blogs

I'm wrestling with Wordpress this morning, trying to see if I can import the Yahoo 360 blog material into it. If I can make that work, I may consolidate everything there and abandon both Yahoo and Blogspot. Stay tuned....

While I tear out all my hair, I do have some things for you to enjoy. No need for all of us to go nuts, right?

The Needlepointer has their monthly clubs for 2009 up on their website. I can't believe I didn't notice the candy cane, lollypops, sheep and tree/wreath clubs before now!
http://www.theneedlepointer.com/needlepoint-clubs.htm

The French Knot has their late spring newsletter up. It announces several fun classes and that they have added a "blog" link to their home page.
http://www.thefrenchknot.com/newsletter.html

http://www.thefrenchknot.com/blog.html

Have fun browsing. I'm off to wrestle with templates and downloads/uploads. Sigh.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
New Yahoo blog at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow and second new one at
http://chillyhollowneedlepoint.wordpress.com/