So, there I was, idly try­ing to export the old Welling­ton­ista blogspot entries across to our snap­py new dot com address, and fail­ing mis­er­ably.

I decid­ed to call it a night, and switch the pub­lish­ing tar­get back to the welling­ton­ista blogspot address, as my co-con­trib­u­tors were doubt­less champ­ing at the bit to post their lat­est, insight­ful thoughts on our fair city onto the site.

But, upon tog­gling from the FTP pub­lish­ing option back to the pub­lish-to-blogspot option, some­thing weird hap­pened: “Sor­ry, this blog address is not avail­able.”

Yes indeed, in the cou­ple of hours I’d had the blogspot address offline, some­one had come in and blog­napped it, replac­ing our lov­ing­ly craft­ed site with a spam­blog.

Arse­holes.

Any­way, this has but accel­er­at­ed our site shift­ing plans, so, farewell blogspot, and hel­lo wellingtonista.com.

Those of you with RSS links should­n’t have to change any­thing, but if you’ve got a link to us on your web­site, we’d appre­ci­ate it if you could update to the new dot com ver­sion of the address.