A new hope

Didn’t someone use that title elsewhere?

Welcome to the brave new world, which seems to be functional including the archives.  So perhaps Google did overcomplicate matters in their instructions, or I’ve just been lucky.  First time if so.

All I needed to do, in the final analysis, was to set up a CNAME for blog.pemur.com, pointing at something going by the slightly worrying name of ghs.google.com, and then switch my Blogger settings to a Custom Domain, pointing at http://blog.pemur.com, and it worked – after a while.  There’s even a valid RSS feed, on http://blog.pemur.com/atom.xml, should anyone find this worthwhile subscribing to.

The negatives include the loss of my favicon: I’m going to miss that.  A boring orange B that looks like nearly every other blog on the web isn’t a suitable replacement.  Also, the RSS feed that Google provides (default) isn’t exactly inspiring, either.

However, if nothing else, moving the blog should kill the overheads on my web stats for the pemur.com/.co.uk domain.  I never did have much luck extracting out the real data from the occasional spider and regular FeedDemon lookups.  On the downside, I guess it will be even more disheartening once these hits are gone.