The Eiserman Domain Blog

Change is comming...

2010-02-04T13:48:00.002Z

Hi, Just a heads up that the site will be going under some severe changes in the short term. Stay tuned!

Oh Blogger, why hast thou forsaken me?

2010-02-04T12:04:00.003Z

In case you are unaware, Blogger is about to discontinue FTP support for Blogger.

A couple of days ago, I received this email:

Dear FTP user:

You are receiving this e-mail because one or more of your blogs at Blogger.com are set up to publish via FTP. We recently announced a planned shut-down of FTP support on Blogger Buzz (the official Blogger blog), and wanted to make sure you saw the announcement. We will be following up with more information via e-mail in the weeks ahead, and regularly updating a blog dedicated to this service shut-down here: http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/.

The full text of the announcement at Blogger Buzz follows.

Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing[1] Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.

Three years ago we launched Custom Domains[2] to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year's post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP[3] and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing. (If you're interested in reading more about Custom Domains, our Help Center has a good overview[4] of how to use them on your blog.) In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.

For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:

We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
We will be providing a dedicated blog[5] and help documentation
Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.

We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way. Thanks for using Blogger.

Regards,

Rick Klau

Blogger Product Manager

Google

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

[1] http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/05/ftp-vs-custom-domains.html

[2] http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html

[3] http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/05/ftp-vs-custom-domains.html

[4] http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

[5] http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/

At the moment, I have 5 active blogs, all being run via Blogger and FTP. I temporarily have tried the custom domain option for my book blog (bookreviews.eiserman.net) which seems to work, but I am quite wary. I think that it is time to change providers and switch to wordpress, so I will build that out and see what happens.

It's not too late to change you mind Google, but I suspect that that is not going to happen.

Westminster Cathedral pt 1

2010-01-27T12:00:00.001Z

A new series with some pictures of Westminster Cathedral.

ADIDAP January

2010-01-18T14:00:00.001Z

I have a few more pictures up for voting at ADIDAP:

54, 69 & 72 here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/01/18/adidap-flickr-round-2009-11-29/

29 here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/01/13/adidap-flickr-round-2009-11-22/

43 and 45 here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/01/11/adidap-flickr-round-2009-11-15/

Feel free to vote if you like the pictures!

Westminster

2010-01-18T12:00:00.000Z

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 8

2010-01-15T12:00:00.000Z

Last in the series:

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 7

2010-01-14T12:00:00.001Z

Regent's Park

2010-01-11T12:00:00.000Z

A bit of sun to remind us that summer will come again...

Man is it cold here!

2010-01-08T12:00:00.001Z

Nasa Pic of the UK via Bad Astronomy Blog

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 6

2010-01-05T12:00:00.002Z

I'm back after the Christmas break. I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday like I did.

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 5

2009-12-24T12:00:00.000Z

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 4

2009-12-23T13:00:00.000Z

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 3

2009-12-22T14:00:00.000Z

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 2

2009-12-21T12:00:00.000Z

Regent's Park Photoshoot pt 1

2009-12-18T12:00:00.001Z

First in a series from a photoshoot in Regent's Park that I did earlier this year:

St. Mary Moorfields

2009-12-17T12:00:00.001Z

Kensington Palace

2009-12-15T12:00:00.000Z

Mass Gathering in defence of street photography

2009-12-11T15:30:00.000Z

http://photographernotaterrorist.org/2009/12/mass-photo-gathering/

I plan on going.

UK Parliament

2009-12-11T12:00:00.002Z

A picture of some seats inside the UK Parliament

Champagne Mercier pt3

2009-12-10T12:00:00.001Z

Ice Sculpture at St Pancras

2009-12-09T10:30:00.000Z

Today I was walking through St Pancras International station (which is beautiful by the way) and saw some Ice Sculpture that was being done. I beleive that this is happening all week, so check it out if you can.

Champagne Mercier pt2

2009-12-08T12:00:00.001Z

Inside the caves at Champagne Mercier. This statue was commissioned for the house and caused quite a stir. It showed a scantily clad woman drinking. It was so scandalous that they decided to relegate it to the caves under the main building at Mercier.

The epic barrel at Champagne Mercier.

Champagne Mercier pt1

2009-12-07T12:00:00.002Z

Pictures from Champagne Mercier in Epernay, France.

Rows of champagne:

Their famous barrel. It placed second in the Exposition, losing out to the Eiffel Tower.

Champagne pt 13

2009-12-04T12:00:00.003Z

A building and monument in Dormans, France

Champagne pt 12

2009-12-03T15:00:00.001Z