THE END OF AN ERA

My WordPress.org blog www.frot.co.nz has been online since January 1 2016, so it’s eight years old now, and has over 750 posts. But it is heavily blacklisted, and the hits have dropped from a peak of over 2000 a day in 2017 to less than 100 a day in 2023, which isn’t very inspiring. WordPress […]

GOING BACK TO BLOGGER

The end of the year is always a good time to reassess how everything is going and decide what to do next. In the middle of 2023 I went back to using Blogger and still found it to be the same convenient and easy to use blogging platform it was a decade ago. So I’ve […]

SIFTINGS #05 – MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2023

As part of my ongoing experiments with testing out alternative platforms for blogging, in a feeble attempt to get around Google’s relentless blacklisting, recently I have mostly been posting short posts on my new Blogger account WWW.SIFT.CO.NZ (in the belly of the beast!) But I had a month off all social media and blogging for October, […]

I’VE BEEN HIDING UP MY OWN ARSE

I haven’t been out cruising for rides, I’ve been busy hiding up my own arse. For the past four months I’ve been sticking to my own little corner of the web, my own two sifty little blogs, where all commenting is turned off, but so are any rewards. Confined to a chair with a sprained […]

SIFTINGS #04 – MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2023

As part of my ongoing experiments with testing out alternative platforms for blogging, in a feeble attempt to get around Google’s relentless blacklisting, recently I have mostly been posting short posts on my new Blogger account WWW.SIFT.CO.NZ (in the belly of the beast!) This is my forth monthly compilation post and it contains some of my […]

WHAT IS A QUICKIE?

 According to Wikipedia, a QUICKIE is sexual intercourse that a couple may engage in when the time available is minimal. The quickie may arise from a spontaneous sexual desire by the parties, or be a regular or planned arrangement.    “Because of the limit on available time, foreplay would generally be skipped; the woman may […]

SIFTINGS #03 – ALL MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2023

As part of my ongoing experiments with testing out alternative platforms for blogging, in an attempt to get around Google’s relentless blacklisting, I have been posting some short posts on a new Blogger account www.sift.co.nz (in the belly of the beast!) This is my third WordPress compilation post containing some of my quickie Blogger posts […]

SIFTINGS #02 – ALL MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM JULY 2023

THIS IS MY SECOND COMPILATION OF MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM BLOGGER My plan of continuing to use my WordPress blog for full length posts, while also doing short random posts on my www.sift.co.nz Blogger blog is going well, and this is my second monthly compilation post of them. https://sift666.blogspot.com/ HERE IS MY COMPILATION POST OF […]

WHAT ARE SIFTINGS?

After experimenting with running a Blogger blog side by side with this WordPress blog for a while, it became clear to me that after eight years it was time to quit using WordPress and go back to Blogger.  WordPress works best for longer posts where more advanced features on things like formatting and image galleries […]