Turbulent Start
By nature, choice is a good thing. One quick look into my life and you may quickly form a doubt or two as to what choice’s nature really is. Good or bad? Let me illustrate:
A couple of weeks ago my portable MP3 player died. If you’ve seen the selection of MP3 players these days, you’ll know where I am heading with all this. Which one is right for you? Good luck. I’m still doing the research on that one.
Take something like message board software. In year three I’m already using a second forum package type. That is not so bad, a statement that demonstrates how bad I really am. Operating Systems? Let’s see… WinXP, to Mandrake, to Mepis, to PCLinux all in 2-3 years (sticking with the Linux trend for there is no going back after that piece of code is wedged behind your nails).
Connect A (new blog) to B (entry title) to C (so many choices, so little time), and you may start to see that I am not yet sure which software to use for this blog. That is right. No idea. Totally lost. Still deciding.
WordPress attracts me in the modern simplicity, but the geek in me craves more power. I’d like to be able to update the blog via Email, or somehow be part of a large interconnected community. At the same time I want things to be nice and simple, a contradiction of sorts. I don’t want to have too many control knobs and gadgets, because I’m a geek. I’ll land up playing with those screwing things up or what not. This is my blog and turning it into another experiment of mine is not what I am after right now.
If you’ve used a couple or more of the more popular blog packages, drop me a comment with some of your likes and dislikes of specific blogs. Over the years I’ve found that the majority of my changes in software are well warranted. I start with the simple so I can get a hang of the basic features, and then I move onto more powerful and more complex solutions as I establish a method of operation. While the process is important you can’t blame me for trying to shorten it a bit here and there.