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…