The Blog Split

It's taken me a long time to come to this decision. I spent a pretty good portion of my day today splitting this blog in to two different blogs. This blog will now be dedicated only to my experiences with cancer while the new blog will include everything else I want to talk about.

Unfortunately SquareSpace does not make this easy. After discussion with their Tech Support the only valid option I could come up with which would allow me to keep everything (pictures, comments, ...) was to start from scratch.  I re-imported my old blog from Blogger in to my new personal blog. Luckily I have 3 screens on my desktop. I loaded my cancer blog on one screen and my new personal blog on another screen. I went through each and every entry from the current back to the beginning of this blog. If I wanted to keep it only on the cancer blog I would delete it from the personal blog or vice-versa. If I wanted to keep it on both, as there were some entries which were both generic and included information which might be of interest to those following my cancer-related experiences, then I left it. After deleting an entry SquareSpace would go back to the first page of the blog so I would have to use the Archives section to go back to where I was.

I now, finally, have two different blogs for different purposes:

Cancer Geek
My blog for my experience with cancer and it starts from my finding my first lump, not knowing what it was, and continues through diagnosis, surgery, treatments and followups and will continue.

Derek Erb
My blog for everything else. This is where I can add just about anything I want to ramble about which does not fit on a tweet in Twitter and which I want to share with more than just my friends on Facebook. It can be simple diary entries as to what I've done or what's happened at a given moment or my thoughts on products, technologies, services and systems of interest... to me. Although it starts from when I first started blogging, January 2005, you will notice a big hole from September 2005 through December 2005. All of my entries for that period are on the Cancer Geek blog.

I am hoping that these two separate blogs will make it easier for readers who are only interested in one or the other aspect of my life and ideas.

This will also be part of a new web presence I am currently working on which will allow me to create a home for all of my various activities throughout the Internet...

I apologise for the relatively quick, and certainly unfinished, page layout of both blogs. I will be playing around with that in the future. But I wanted to get the content out there, and the separation in place, to allow me to move forward in the other aspects of this project.

Enjoy!