Change for feed's sake (day 113)

I got sidetracked today.  I spent an entire afternoon porting my blog from my custom site (www.marialantin.com) to blogspot.  If all worked well, you're looking at this post from the site.  I've set up redirect links from the old site so I'm hoping everything mostly works out and 404's are limited.  If you are reading this from a feed reader,  it is obviously still working with the old address.   But if it's not too much trouble, I would love it if you could change your rss feed to the newer one by using the drop down menu on the actual site or by copy&pasting this address:
http://marialantin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
to your reader.
(if you go to the address it'll redirect to feedburner which is not as desirable)

How did this happen?

I was reading IEEE news and there was a news story about URL shortening services.  Apparently Google is releasing their own but it will only work with a limited number of services, Feedburner among them.  I had been hearing about Feedburner from some other sources and I got curious.  Turns out it's a kind of analysis service for bloggers.  It was simple enough to sign up so I decided to try it out.  To my dismay I couldn't get it to work to my satisfaction unless I was hosting my blog on blogger's own server space.  So I made the ambitious decision to port everything over.  That part is actually easy...it's the making sure the links and stylesheet are working that is not so easy.    There was another reason to switch over:  the ease with which I could change my stylesheet by adding widgets.  Just for that, the switch was worth it.  I know a lot of people swear by Wordpress and I have a couple of blogs on Wordpress too.  But I do like the simplicity of Blogger.  Fewer things can and do go wrong.

Anyway, I hope things work out ok.  Let me know if there are any issues.
The search feature won't work until Google gets around to indexing the site.  For now it always returns an empty set.

A song for this post.