Ugh.. I moved blogs again..

Well, actually, I’m not really sure what my blog situation is at the moment.

I hear all these great things about wordpress, how customizable and userfriendly it is, and after my tiff with LiveJournal (namely, they put Scientology ads on my blog and gave me no way to remove them – grrr! ) I thought, “awesome, wordpress sounds freakin sweet.” Their own site makes themselves sound like everything I’ve ever been looking for in a weblog. And getting started was relatively easy and userfriendly. However…. ugh. It seems there’s always a catch or three.

First off, one thing everyone should know about me is that I’m dutch, and therefore terribly cheap. I hate paying for things that I think should be free. Namely, I’m talking about being able to CSS modify my blog. I would’ve thought that would come free, like on Blogger, but apparently not, it cost $15 and I sort of semi-unintentionally already bought that. Plllt. So now I’ve blown $15 on a year of CSS customization on this blog, but I’m not even sure if I like WordPress yet or not. I mean, the text editor is very awkward and ungainly. I can’t even insert “</br>” tags in the html for some reason, and when I put in “<p></p>” tags instead, any time I go back to edit the html, they get deleted. Was this system designed by monkeys or something? Seriously… Ack.

So now I’ve sampled the fare from almost every major blog provider I’ve ever heard of – Blogger, Xanga, MySpace(blech, I almost hesitate to include it), LiveJournal, and now the oh-so-godly WordPress.. (aaahh angels singing in background).. and honestly, in terms of what offers the most benefits for the lowest cost (free), Blogger comes out on top. My problem with Blogger is their site always seems so slow, and adding new posts can be tedious under such circumstances.. but geez.. maybe it’s time I went back.. NO! I’m already straddling two blogs as it is, a third one is just going to f*ck everything up. I can’t seem to import my LiveJournal entries to WordPress, despite how ‘easy’ WP claimed that would be. And God help me, I’m still fond of that stupid LiveJournal of mine (despite the ads which I HATE HATE HATE HATE!!)

So who knows. Maybe I’ll grow to like this one better. It’s certainly snazzier looking, and I’ve already spent fifteen bucks on it, so I should at least stick around for a while. We’ll see. Grr.. blogging for free is a frustrating business indeed.. maybe I should just get my own website.. yeah right.. CURSE YOU DUTCH GENES!!!! LET ME SPEND MONEY FRIVOLOUSLY FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE!!!!!

Later ya’ll.

-Dennis