It was December 29, 2011, the day I decided to begin blogging about my personal process' with writing and composing music. I had begun composing folk songs about forty years prior to venturing into this then rather new form of sharing personal ideas and experiences via the internet. I had become familiar with blogs in their various forms hosted by disparate entities there in. I had recently discovered Google's Blogspot, finding it had an easy interface having many pre-formed templates containing a flexibility that allowed its users to somewhat individualize the character and form of its display. Having chosen Blogspot as a host, I began the simple process of shaping the display of what I called BaCoNatureMuse.
other search engines what web designers use for to inform these entities with sitemap of the contents contained within an individual web domain. This profile allowed my access to Blogspot at that time, offering a convenience likely influential in my decision to choose it as the host for my personal blog. Over the years, Google began requesting a mobile phone number as a requirement for their log-in process, to use it as an account recovery system, yet at that time it could be opted out of. Well in the spring of 2022 their position changed, making a phone number a requirement. Well I neither have nor do I want to ever possess a mobile phone. Thus I have no ability to receive a text message. This became a problem as I refused to provide Google my land line telephone number. This resulted in my being locked out of the my then Blogspot.com account and the BaCoNatureMuse blog interface.
Thus having retained all the content contained there in within my computer's file system, I was forced to change my methodology of displaying and actually creating further postings there in. I find this fully unacceptable, but without access, I can no longer use that site. Still, every word and photograph contained therein remains uniquely my own, of my design and of my own private belonging. I have thus come to the conclusion that I will take all these archived files of text, and build my own webspace to contain it all, within my mucic site's domain, thomasepeterson.com. (no link provided as you are already within said domain if you are reading this)
Now many months later, I am going through the long process of creating my own hosting space for these writings, that is fully within my own space. It has been a long complex process incorporating this information into a format that can display these writings, in a form that is easily navigated by its users. Within this task I took the liberty of editing some of the content, in a manner that reflects the changes brought on through time, rendering statements of intent moot, and some grammatical errors I noticed while in process. I made the look of the blog very different by forming it to coincide with similar properties to the remainder of the domain, while having its own need for the unique functionality requirements that differ from the remainder of the domain. The size of this project had prevented my desire to undertake this process for over a year, which in turn prevented a desire to write posts that had no home post Google's account status change.
Hopefully these changes will provide you, the user a continued glimpse into these words I write from time to time, with a greater ease than the switching of domains, required previously.