It's been a while - a year in fact - since I've updated this site. This was mainly due to being very busy with our growing family. However, last month I received a disturbing email from Blogger, the service I have used to update this part of the site for the last seven years.

It seems the system which has served me well is no longer to be supported by Blogger, which is owned by Google. At the moment I can select a photo in Flickr and write a blog post, click a button, and then Flickr will talk to Blogger which happily updates this page, and works very nicely without upsetting the other parts of the site. For the last seven years it has worked perfectly. Unfortunately, it seems this is now no longer technically possible, or has been deemed uneconomical - something I find hard to believe for a company with the resources of Google.

My problem is this: I would like to keep on updating this site from time to time, when I can. Sometimes I am busy, sometimes not, and a low maintenance site can always be added to now and then. But I don't have the kind of free time I had 7 or 8 years ago, not enough to rebuild the site and integrate a whole new blogging service into it - possibly having to migrate tens or hundreds of pages. So, from 1st May 2010, this site will go into prolonged and probably permanent hibernation.

My plan is to set up a new, and much simpler, family blog. I'll use Wordpress, and host it at www.horton-szar.com - so not too much of a jump. I'll be working on this over the next few weeks and will keep posts going here till then.