Grow Up, Little Blog

A technical question for my blog readers, who may well be more technically savvy than I am.

I’ve had this blog at this URL for some time, and I feel now that I can do better than a URL based on the old AIM screen name I used back in the day when I actually used AIM. So I could change the URL, but I don’t want to nullify all the links currently leading here. So I’m wondering this: Is it possible to start a new URL — maybe something a little more grown-up but maybe still even something that just reflects the title of the blog — and post content both there and at the old URL? Like, basically have a mirror site, I guess? I’d use the new, improved URL as the official site, but people could still access content by typing what’s gotten them here in the past.

Is this possible? Is this even a thing?

The First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan

Good news, everyone!

According to the latest from Blogger Buzz, thisahere Blogspot blog has and for a while has had the ability to offer RSS feeds for specific post labels. In normalspeak, this: If you want, you can plug into your feed reader only the posts that interest you. It’s like the blog version of the ruby slippers having been there the whole time.

Tickled by all things verbal? Then just tell Mr. Internet that you’d only like to subscribe to these posts. Are you a video game nerd? Then receive only my game-related posts. Like axolotls? Then get nothing but my axolotl-centric posts. Hey, I might write about them again someday maybe!

I realize that I use this blog as a forum to write about just anything, but if you actually hate that kind of openness you can instead now just read one thing at the expense of the others. Make Back of the Cereal Box work for you.

Coney Island Disco Palace

Holy handbasket — I think Blogger just revolutionized the way I run this here chunk of webspace by inventing a vaccination against blogging apathy, an affliction that lowered the number of worthwhile posts last month and which also was aptly described on another blog just a few days ago.

Two wonderful words: "Scheduled posting."

Basically, I can make the best of the days I feel the urge to write, schedule the posts to automatically appear at a certain time on a certain day and then go on autopilot while my blog appears nonetheless updated. Of course, this could potentially lead to an awkward situation in which Blogger Drew ends up dead or in a coma or lost at sea and his blog creepily posting new little nothings on pop culture minutiae all the while, but that's really more of a problem for you and less of a problem for me.

A kicker: I scheduled this post to go up ten whole minutes after I finished it. Can you imagine?