Hark! A Blog!

Look!   There goes another one!    

Now the more curious of you will have clicked that link and fallen right into my trap.... mwahaha.   Alright, not so much a trap as "my new blog that I'm test driving".   See, that doesn't have the same exciting connotation as Trap at all.  

So, after five years of being here on Typepad, I'm considering upping my stakes and moving on over to Wordpress.  "Why?" *gasp* I hear you exclaim in shock and awe, well let me tell you (yeah, like I wasn't going to give you an essay about this)...

Well you see.    The reason why I'm here on the NotFree version is because I wanted the ability to customise the look of the blog however I saw fit, and Wordpress doesn't have that same ability, as much as their "1400 different designs to choose from' would lead you to believe.  No, it appears that this extremely simple yet surprising elusive design is a particular level of cool that manages to evade those 1400 designer's grasp.    See, I'm a type of cool that you just can't learn from a text book (it takes years of mental instability).   

Typepad has been extremely good to me during my quaint little blog's life.   It's been there, through the hard times and the fun times, through the flying fur and the contented purring (referring to Oliver and Booti and in that order).   But I'm not the blogger I once was (appropriate blame should be passed to Taubin for that), and I can't now justify the hosting fee for something I just don't get the same amount of pleasure out of, and the customised design no longer hold that value for me.    Also, they're constantly changing their layout and format and well, as much as I like change, I don't and it's annoying me.   And it doesn't play nice with the iphone so I can't 'blog on the go' like all the cool kids are doing.

So it's over to Freebie Wordpress for me.  Please don't hate on the rubber stamped design too much, it's beyond my control.  I did the best with what I had.  And you'll hurt it's feelings.

And, that's the story.  Shall I read you another?

Comments

[Taubin]

Why do *I* get blamed for the lack of blogging? Huh? =P

You have to remember babe, the widgets you have here, can be implimented in most of the themes on WP. When you install the theme, it will look pretty blank until they are added again ;)

[Zach]

Pretty sexy for a bog standard design. I was thinking of moving to wordpress too..

[beck]

i don't care where you blog so long as you keep blogging!!! just make my links work so i don't lose you!

[Patrick]

Freebies, I'm all for them and hey, It would be nice to have you for a neighbor! And I agree with Beck, as long as you keep Blogging, we will be happy :)

[jonathan helix]

By absolute coincidence, I just came over to tell you about my NEW BLOG woooo! (It's the artist formerly known as xhile here)

AND I'm using Wordpress. Never used it before. However, it has a good rep and you can download and customise it. I'm using the standard hosted one now, but am *assuming* that once I get my own custom one done, I can import the entries into that.

Check me out. And please comment!
(Yes, I know you know the real me... work with me here)

http://spritzophrenia.wordpress.com/about/