Welcome to the New In Reference to Murder Home

 

If you're new to this blog, welcome, and if you're finding this link from the old Typepad blog, thanks for moving with me!

It somehow seems fitting that Typepad has shut down at the same time the U.S. federal government is likely to shut down. There might be some sort of cosmological truth buried in there, somewhere. At any rate, after 18 years, this blog has now officially moved to Blogspot via the following URL:  https://inreferencetomurder.blogspot.com/.

I chose Blogspot (aka Blogger) because it is as close to a one-to-one transfer of style, format, and ease of use that you can find to replace Typepad. I've been adding old Typepad posts to Blogspot off and on, but it may take some time to do so manually, as Google frowns on uploading too many posts per day (I already got placed into temporary Google jail once over doing that when creating this new blog). 

However, since Google is forever shutting down its popular services without warning, I also created a mirror site on Wordpress for two reasons:  (a) because, Google; and (b) unlike Blogspot, I was able to transfer all the Typepad backup files into Wordpress. If Google does shutdown Blogspot, I'll still be over at Wordpress.com, although it will likely have its own distinct URL, inreferencetomurder.com. Wordpress is more powerful, but it's meant primarily for websites, not blogs. Plus, it has a steep learning curve, and because Typepad only gave us one month's notice prior to shutdown, I simply didn't have the time.

So farewell from In Reference to Murder at Typepad and happy to see you here at In Reference to Murder at Blogspot (or Wordpress, eventually).