It seems like you give up an awful lot of control of your site with WordPress, which would drive me crazy. I’m a control freak and would not appreciate a third party putting things on my site, especially links to drive traffic elsewhere, where I don’t benefit from it.

Also, Blogger lets you have ads; even encourages you to use Google Ad Sense, which they own; and they pay you for the clicks. I don’t take ads either, but if I wanted to, all I’d have to do is sign up. Or, I could make my own arrangements for ads.

Also, giving up JS was the final straw that drove me back to Blogger.

This post has inspired me to follow through with an idea I had previously, anyway. After work today, I’m gonna turn my little test site public, and document my progress in a development blog, on the site that I’m using to test the changes. This is why my posting has been so light lately anyway, so why not use it, right? This could be interesting. Might be a train wreck, but it could also be fun.

The main issue for me is time. I just don’t have the time to deal with my own installation. I want to write, not tinker with the stuff in the background. But one of the reasons I have domain mapping is because I may eventually move over to self-hosting.

I thought you were abandoning the customization ability for both the simplicity and the free hosting. If it’s only simplicity you want, it’s there with many of the domain hosts out there. If you’re not riding totally free, you can’t be paying a whole lot less than $7/month. IMO, you need to rethink this.

I need to point out that my hosting may be free but I do pay for a couple of things: domain mapping and CSS editing. I guess that’s part of what makes me mad. Because I pay for CSS, I should be able to use it to eliminate those things that I don’t want, but WP.com overrode those changes by moving the information to files that we don’t have access to due to the nature of the multi-user platform.

Hmmm, perhaps a similar sentiment can be put on the health insurance post. When the consumer is not the one footing the bills, things just don’t seem to work very well.

I’m redesigning my site right now. The work that I’m doing there is probably exactly the sort of thing you say you don’t have time or inclination for. But when I’m done, I’ll have my blog entries separated from news links, a news aggregator that will have it’s own index, categories, and the ability to place the aggregator items on my home page. I’ll also have thirty regions on the page to place different stuff, and filled regions will expand to fill the space left by unfilled ones. It’s going to become much more than a blog. This sort of scalability is way beyond the capabilities of hosted options like WP and Blogspot.

That said, I am a web developer, and a database administrator. The work I’m putting into achieving all of this comes more easily to me than it would to an accountant.

The one I listed as #3 is about crafting with ribbons. Srsly.

#3 is Day 4 of 100 details for 100 days
#4 is Few notes on Love’s Ragpicker

I don’t even want to know what #4 is about.

I have a screenshot of this if you’d like it. LMK by email and I’ll send it to you. (at least your links are bold, the others aren’t.)

And yes, I use the future posts thing myself. That’s the only way I can keep up

I’ve actually thought about going back to using blogger, which I used for the first 6 months or so I was blogging. The primary reason I haven’t already done so is the fact that wordpress lets you set up posts to be published in the future which can come in handy if I have a lot of other things going on and I know I’ll be busy.