A quick apology

When OnMeBus moved to the new address I messed up the feeds, therefore you may have missed a few updates, it also broke the email link, this does now work but I’m afraid the feed address will change again when I switch to the new look hopefully tomorrow! (you will get a feed on the current address letting you know it has happened though)

Happy Birthday & Top Gear

Yesterday was the second Birthday of OnMeBus and it was the day I was hoping to relaunch with the new look etc, however there have been a few set back but that should happen possibly later today but more likely early next week.

I also wanted to talk about Top Gear though. Yesterday also being Valentines Gill and I celebrated with a Chinese take away and watched Top Gear (how romantic I know, but then it was about 3 in the afternoon before we even remembered it was valentines!) This was a repeat of Sunday episode so if you saw it you will know what I am talking about if not you can see the relevant clip here (I would watch it no before you read on!) Now I know that a lot of Top Gear now is about stupid stunts etc but I felt this decorate each others cars to see if you can get the other arrested or shot was going too far and in poor taste only made worse by the fact that it is only a few months since Richard Hammond nearly lost his life filming for the show! But this act was set up to deliberately, deeply offend people, now some of their stunts have annoyed people, drive time radio show, road resurfacing, trying to play golf and keep arguing and holding up the whole course, but these were not offensive unlike this latest stunt in America, there was indeed one point where they did nearly get them selves caught by the locals who were not at all impressed. What’s more it had nothing to do with the cars or even what they were trying to show you could do (or not as the case turned out which was to do a fly drive holiday but buy a car instead of rent.) I personally think this was irresponsible and distasteful programming by the producers and the BBC and I was very disappointed that they would call this entertainment.

The slight redeeming aspect of the programme was finishing off in an area that a year ago had been hit by hurricane Katrina and they were supposed to be trying to sell the cars, however they were so hit by the devastation that still existed that they offered them to a local charity who put them in contact with local people who still had no car after the hurricane took everything they owned.

Welcome

Welcome to my new home, it’s good to have you here, do come in, make yourself comfortable, grab a feed and soon we shall continue on our journey. As with moving into any new home there is always lots of work to be done and soon I hope to get some decorating done and rearrange things including some major structural work as I make the move from blogger to wordpress and we shall see what else happens.
Thanks for popping by oh and don’t forget to let others know I have moved if you have a link to the old address on your blog or site.
Feed addresses are:
RSS: http://www.onmebus.net/rss.xml
Atom: http://www.onmebus.net/atom.xml
feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/onmebus

WE HAVE MOVED!

Well as announced yesterday the blog has now moved, this is the last entry at this address. I will try and set up a forward at the address to the new one but it may not last long as my hosting has moved and there have been a few issues which might make that impossible. In the mean time head across to www.onmebus.net alter your rss or atom feeds and see what happens next.

Advance Warning!

But not much I’m afraid, the blog is moving, probably within the next couple of days. I will try and set up a forward at this address but due to technical difficulties it may not work for long. You will also need to change you feed if you read this blog via such facilities once the move has happened, for those of you who subscribe via email you need do nothing as that will all be dealt with at my end. So what will the new home be called I hear you ask, well here we go….
www.onmebus.net

see you there.

interruption postponed

Well due to various technical reasons the move did not happen over the weekend. It will probably be happening some time soon so there will be an interruption at some stage but I will let you know when.

Advance warning

I think I am going to be moving my hosting over the weekend to another server and so the blog may disappear briefly, it will come back and all the feeds etc. will be exactly the same so no need to change anything your end just thought I would explain if some of you hoards try and visit and get an error, although of course if you haven’t seen this first you wont know will you but hey!

See you the other side if the weekend.

Happy Christmas

Well this will probably now be the last post this side of Christmas, in fact quite possibly this year so thought I would update you briefly on the thinking about the blog and where it will be etc. Having played around with Wordpress there are some features I really like and on the whole I think it probably has the potential to be slightly better than the new blogger, that said though, so far I have only worked with wordpress.com the hosted version which is quite restricting in what you can do and I have to say from having looked at that I think out of the two blogger wins hands down if you need a hosted blog (or at least the software as I host the blog myself but use blogger’s engine to write it). I hope in the new year to have a little play around with a self hosted copy of wordpress which I think is probably going to be better for me in the long run as this gives all the advantages of the wordpress engine with none of the restrictions of the hosted version. To give brief comment on other options voxtropolis appears to be the new kid on the block, I’ve had a brief look wasn’t all that impressed to be honest, doesn’t appear to have the power or ease of use of blogger. Typepad and SquareSpace both look very good, very similar in some respects to wordpress in terms of power and format, although remotely hosted I think you get away without having the restrictions that you get with wordpress.com the thing that stopped me looking too closely was the fact that you have to pay, I would suggest if you want power, hassle free and you don’t mind paying give these two a look, if you want almost as much power but not complete freedom but for free and easy to run blogger is the place to be, however if you want it all and you want it free wordpress look like filling that gap but you have to know a bit more about what you are doing with servers etc (or find someone to help who does). I’ll let you know how I get on soon.

For now though have a great Christmas and New Year, take it easy and I’ll see you here soon.

God bless

We have moved 2

To take full advantage of the new blogger I have moved my hosting back to the blogger site hence the change in address to www.onmebus.blogspot.com, I’m obviously not so keen on this as an address and am currently looking into other options, even with the changes with the beta version I’m still not completely convinced that Blogger is the tool for me and I am currently therefore also playing around with wordpress as well. I will keep up the redirection but take of the time delay in a few days so don’t feel you need to alter details for that, however if you are using the RSS or Atom feeds to read it you may now not even find out about this post but may need to alter something.

Cheers for now and please bear with me during these changes!

Update: ahhhggggg I’ve just noticed that in moving to bloggers hosting it has lost all my pictures, I might be able to bring them back but I’m not sure, not happy!

Update2: not happy with that so moved back! Still looking at alternatives though.

We have moved.

Well yesterday I updated to the new Blogger in Beta, it makes very little difference to you at this stage apart from it does mean that I can now start to use labels at the end of posts to help you find things on a similar subject. I probably won’t go through and add these to all the old posts as there are rather a lot but a few significant ones will probably be done at some stage. Other things may well be changing over the coming months but then I keep on talking about this and it hasn’t really happened yet so don’t hold your breath.