IfÂ  you're reading this, it's probably because you heard about my recent decision to move off my dedicated server and onto a WordPress blog.Â  It's been an interesting exercise shifting off your own space and onto a cookie-cutter service, which is what I did yesterday when I setup my blog on WordPress.com. Overall it was a trivial task which only took a couple of hours to do from sign-up to launch.

The downside of using a service like WordPress.com is that you're kind of bound to what they offer the general public and as a power user that can be immensely frustrating. It's no fault of WP. Their business is to cater to a broad audience on WordPress.com and if you're a power user, they offer the code for you to customize. So I'm not one to complain because they've got a great model going &amp; they're doing right by everyone.

So I was chatting with my friend David Walsh, who BTW is a really talented developer, about my migration and sharing some of my pain points. Well, here's what he said:

<blockquote>David Walsh: i can't let a brotha live on wordpress.com</blockquote>

From there, he proceeded to totally hook me up with a self-hosted WP account of my own; DNS updates and all! That was a very cool thing to do and I'm grateful for his help. This now gives me so much more flexibility to tweak things as I see fit and even dive into PHP a bit, something I've been 

