hontou ni Stripey Insists Sisters Cry Oniichan Now

Assimilating the Sea Slugs blogging method

...where 100% Dark Stripey Vampires prey on lolis and blogs

Regular readers would know that the Holy Hontounia Empire's WordPress backend tends to follow the lead of the technological machinations inside the Sea Slugs! Triumvirate; some might have also noticed how my method has become isomorphic, since Bakemonogatari, of Kabitzin's blogging method.

Ending the vigil, letting in the light

Someone call the Child Support Agency!

I'm too technically incompetent, too anxious and too lazy to attempt major changes but I've just switched from Vigilance to another Kabitzin-approved theme, LightWord. It all started out so innocently too.

Zaku AFK Notification

I'll be travelling from 29 Sep to 9 Oct; access to the internets is uncertain so I may not be able to blog during this period. At the very least, I will schedule the next 4koma for publication on 6 Oct.

Mister Stripey, you has the con.

EDIT: Yes, I can has interwebs access.

Hontounia Einigung Stage Zwei

After the initial relief that the new blog, domain and my computer have not exploded (like Reiji's apartment), it was time to get into the nitty gritties and tweaking needed to bring Hontou Ni up to full functionality (where's Cal when you need her?).

This post reports on my experience compared against the list provided by Kabitzin's trusty blog absorption guide:

Prep Work. I didn't do any of this (other than backing up just in case) because I was melding the two export files into a new blog rather than fiddling with an existing one; if it failed, I could just delete the whole thing and try again (or not).

Hontounia Einigung Stage Ein

As with many of the movings and shakings in the Holy Empire of Hontounia, this partcular event was triggered, yet again, by Sea Slugs! Overlord Kabitzin when he put out a call for new cannon fodder contributers.

Having been exhausted by a spate of hosting and other backend problems, I contemplated leaving all these duties behind by joining another team blog while Stripey would move to Wordpress.com or even back to Blogspot. But we quickly abandoned these notions; we did not want to consign four to five years (and hundreds) of entries and comments to the oblivion; but if we wanted to keep the legacy blogs and entries in place (and generally not contribute to the scourge of linkrot), we would still have to maintain the domain as well as keep the WP installations and plugins up to date. Which defeated the initial purpose.