Northern Trip

Tomorrow, 8 October, is the 4th anniversary of my journal Northern Trip on AOL. As AOL is axing its blogging service, I have decided to ceas...

Greetings from Inverness. I urgently need to tell you that it has proved impossible to migrate the dormant journals, including those writte...

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I am pleased that my J-land 2 folder on Google Reader is filling up nicely with everybody's new URLs. Ken (buckoclown) is suggesting we...

The procedure for transferring our blogs to Blogger is yet to be announced. YOU have to do the transferring, there is nothing automatic abou...

Once the stramash is over, and our journals are no longer hosted on AOL, I shall switch to a new journal, called Atlantic Lines .

Anyone who knows of a blog by a deceased person they wish to preserve, please drop me a line. Anyone who knows of a blog by a person who wil...

I have been blocked from making further entries on Magic Smoke. The reason why is unclear to me. I will go so far as to say that AOL LLC is ...

I'm very pleased that many are already changing to a Blogger blog. Sue [catslittertray] has come up with an idea to keep in touch throug...

I continue to be on journals break. I am only making entries to help everybody in amongst the carnage, caused by the announced shut-down of ...

Apart from AOL Journals, AOL Hometown will also be sunset (quoting the euphemism from AOL bigwig Kevin Conroy on July 25 . AOL Hometown, a r...

Right, so we're supposed to save our journals to disk. Does not work. Manual transfer - I've got nearly 4,800 entries. Forget it. I...

Dear AOL Journals user [UK], We regret to inform you that AOL Journals is shutting down on 31 October 2008 . After this date...

I have decided to take a break from blogging until October 8th. I have therefore declined an invitation to be guest editor this weekend. Any...

Visited the graveyard in this small village, 9 miles north of Stornoway, this afternoon. The location is actually quite pretty, so I'll ...

I am not following "alerts" (through Google Reader) at present, and may not do so for a while. At the moment, I do not feel up to ...

Fairly bright today, even if with a good cover of cloud. No complaints about the weather so far. More than can be said of Puerto Rico, which...