The dawn of a new era!

On the fateful April 15, 2004, I started both a Blogger and a Xanga blog, but ended up doing most of my posting on Xanga. The main reason was that most of the people I knew were on Xanga and I couldn't leave comments unless I had a login/blog with them, so I just ended up continuing to use it. Although there are some conveniences associated with it, I'm not a big fan of the closed community, where I couldn't leave comments unless I had a login, I couldn't figure out how to change my links to show subscriptions to other non-Xanga blogs, and there just wasn't much control in general to do whatever I wanted. Finally, to top it all off, I re-registered my own domain name, eventually picked a hosting provider, and got off my lazy butt to set up a subdomain and have Blogger publish to it. That was the final straw and now the switchover is in the works. When I get another jolt of inspiration, I might even try transfer my posts out of Xanga and over here.