Blog this! Book blog be gone.

I love to read. I always have a book I am reading. I always have, and I suspect and hope I always will. A couple of years ago I decided to keep track of the books I had read. A short review of my thoughts and impressions of the book. I did so for a couple of reasons. First, sometimes I had a hard time remember what I read when, and sometimes exactly what I felt or thought about a book and its main plot points. Secondly, I enjoy talking with others about the books I read and this was a way to easily share with them. As I started to think about blogging (and in general I don't think much of it), I noticed that my book reviews were similar to a blog. I "posted" on a regular basis and each entry was self contained. So a couple of months ago I decided to switch the book review to a blog. I took all the book reviews from this past year and cut them into separate HTML snippets and manually posted each one with blogger. Right off the bat blogger frustrated me. It is EXTREMELY hard to configure the FTP publishing of a blog to a directory other than the root of a website. Especially trying to get the archive publishing to work. The application seemed to remember settings other than what it displayed, and most damning was that the errors reported back to you when a ftp put failed was that there was no context to the error. You didn't get a message about what had attempted to have been blogged and what file failed. Just a message that said "Failed to put file". So I was unhappy to begin with. Then I got some feedback from a colleague who looked at my reviews and said "the new format blows". Some of that I think is his general disdain for blogging and bloggers, some of which I hold myself, despite the irony of my writing this, and some of it I agree with. Namely how the individual blog format tended to break up the flow of browsing. So Blog this! I am abandoning the book blog and going back to the old format. Its not really that hard to copy a table row anyway.