Cher public, La Cieca acted with her usual impetuosity last night and migrated the blog to WordPress. For the last couple of months, Blogger has been slower and slower to post to FTP, and their Help Desk might better be called “Desk.” The frustration really peaked late yesterday afternoon when La Cieca got the “fishbone” update, the official word of the Chicago cancellation of Juan Diego Flórez.  Obviously La Cieca wanted to get this story online quickly, and just as obviously, Blogger kept stalling and sputtering. (And this was for a one-paragraph item without any images or sounds or anything; uploading files and images has also ground to a standstill over the last few months.)

Your doyenne also noticed that comments were slow to display, which she knows is frustrating for her loyal public — and doubly so to herself, since reading these comments is sometimes the only human contact she has for days on end. (Sunnyside is economical and safe, but it’s not exactly Paris in the 192os, if you know what I mean.)

So, anyway, here we are. The layout is still somewhat rudimentary, but La Cieca intends on tweaking some this weekend, and while she’s wired, she’ll attend to some of the details here. (La Cieca’s little drug-related joke.)

Now, practical matters. If you look at the bottom of the left hand column, you will find a pulldown menu that lists the monthly archives of the “old” parterre.com. In fact, here it is:

“document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;”>  – previously –January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004November 2004

You can continue to comment on these older posting, and (here’s the good news), you will find that commenting here on WordPress is much easier and user-friendlier. When you enter a comment, you will be asked for your name (i.e., your nickname) and an email address. Please be assured that the email address will not ever be published; that’s just a precaution to discourage anonymous haters.

La Cieca is hoping that WordPress will make the tech side of le blogging easier and so she will have more time to, well, blog.

Comments? Suggestions?