Well, this is the first version of WordPress I’m using – it’s hosted on the WordPress site until I can get my hosting service to add MySQL so I can futz around with configuring it myself. I realized that when I was expressing my frustration with Yahoo and Google I could stop and actually practice what I preach – namely, use Open Source software whenever I can, and stop using products that frustrate me. This is just one of a continuing series of things I’m doing to make that change.

I had originally looked at using WordPress as a small content management system for a friend’s web site, but instead I think I’ll probably use something else for that. As a blogging system, it’s clearly superior to Blogger in a number of ways – there are categories, a great, easy to use administrator panel, and a sense that this is what someone can use when they’re learning to customize and make their blog their own.

It’s been a slice, Blogger/Google, but it’s time for me to be on my own.