Farewell ... but Not Goodbye
It somehow seems fitting that Typepad is shutting down at the same time the U.S. federal government is likely to shut down. There might be some sort of cosmological truth buried in there, somewhere. At any rate, after 18 years, this blog is moving to Blogspot via the following URL: https://inreferencetomurder.blogspot.com/.
I chose Blogspot (aka Blogger) because it is as close to a one-to-one transfer of style, format, and ease of use that you can find to replace Typepad. I've been adding old Typepad posts to Blogspot off and on, but it may take some time to do so manually, as Google frowns on uploading too many posts per day (I already got placed into temporary Google jail over doing that when creating the new blog).
However, since Google is forever shutting down its popular services without warning, I also created a mirror site on Wordpress for two reasons: (a) because, Google; and (b) unlike Blogspot, I was able to transfer all the Typepad backup files into Wordpress. If Google does shutdown Blogspot, I'll still be over at Wordpress.com, although it will likely have its own distinct URL, inreferencetomurder.com. Wordpress is more powerful, but it's meant primarily for websites, not blogs. Plus, it has a steep learning curve, and because Typepad only gave us one month's notice prior to shutdown, I simply didn't have the time.
So farewell from In Reference to Murder at Typepad and hope to see you over at In Reference to Murder at Blogspot (or Wordpress, eventually).
