Josh Kim dot Org

I love WordPress. I love the guy who started it, and am love with in the network that has been created at WordPress.com. (Note: WordPress.com is the network, WordPress.org is the place to download the source of the WordPress bloggin software) Automattic, the company founded by Matt, creates not only the blogging platform but also Akismet, the tried-and-true workhorse of the Internet for catching comment spam… which I’m glad for its existence.

Maybe it’s the fact that Automattic took off around the time I had my PHP blog site going… or something. I don’t know. But really, I support his (or their, I don’t know enough about the history of the company… I should find that out) push towards having the platform be open source (and I don’t like how Six Apart took this long to take the jump).

Moving to Wordpress.com from Dreamhost

I really don’t want to code for the blog, other than the template. I think WordPress has matured enough for me to move this into the Clouds, so to speak.

What I mean by that is I won’t have to manually update the php code myself. Dreamhost does have a very nice button I can click on now and then, but WordPress.com would push out the updates on me, regardless if I like it or not. I wouldn’t have to even think about what version number we’re at (unless I have a problem… but I trust them).

But more importantly, I’ll be hooked into the network of the bloggers that are on the system. Yes, I have technorati and feeds, but this is just another way to get my stuff out there.

Sweet. Now to pick a time and date to do the move. Maybe I’ll blog that experience, too.

Oh Look, They Did It For Me

Pros and Cons

One huge HUGE con is I can’t use Markdown for adding markup to the pages. This is a huge HUGE problem. I don’t know if I can go back to typing out HTML anymore.

Alas, more to think about…