old blog hijacked ...

argh, argh ,argh! - was in process of setting up Typepad blog yesterday. All going well, managed to follow simple instructions for importing all previous postings (which involved removing all formatting, and saving to a new blogspot address, so as not to over-write old index.

All old postings transferred over successfully, and made test post on new blog, still looking OK. As dial-up connection started playing up badly, decided to go out and get some new printer cartridges. Came back to find old Blog address had been hi-jacked by some bar-steward calling themselves mlqknits, with a posting about home furnishing.

Haven't so far been able to find a way to get back my old blog URL, so I could let everyone know (oh what a pain, will have to e-mail a number of people separately to let them know), so looks like I am definitely using TypePad from now on, as have no real choice in matter, but on the plus side, posting seems (so far, touching wood!) to be a great improvement ...

I suppose salutary lesson from all of this is, if you do move your blog, take a copy of all the Blogger Formatting stuff, then once you've copied over all your old posts, make sure you re-set everything on Blogger the way it was, so no-one can sneak in before you're ready to go live ...

Right, just so you all know, some links

- the new blog is here

- the old blog is here

- and the hijacker is here - I have flagged his or her posting as offensive, and left a 'polite' comment. I shall also be reporting the matter to Blogger