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,