My blog is back at Wordpress – hosted by their good selves rather than me. I haven’t so much gone “full circle”, as started another lap. Hopefully this will be the last.

After thinking about it all afternoon, and much of the evening, a few things occurred to me;

  • Why am I paying for blog posting ?
  • Why am I not using Wordpress.com ?
  • What kind of idiot am I ?

I’ll tell you what kind of idiot I am – the kind that can’t stop fiddling with stuff – can’t stop tinkering. It has to stop some time, and now would be a good time. After trying out all manner of homes for my words around the internet, I am returning to the once-host for many moons of them – Wordpress.

I do not write to make money – therefore I have no need for advertising. (You will no doubt notice the Google ad in the sidebar now – to help pay for hosting fees). I am in the business of making friends though, and it makes much more sense to be part of a community to do that. Better to be on the train, looking out, than on the platform trying to look in. Hosting my own Wordpress blog highlighted many of the professional dangers I have to deal with in my “other life” – constant updates to the server, constant re-installation of plugins and widgets, and constant defence against spam. That all comes to an end through the use of a hosted blog – it becomes somebody else’s problem.

Here’s to the future, and being a boring ass blogger on Wordpress, who throws out badly written words like confetti in the dark of night – that nobody can see.