I decided to start from fresh. No more handrolling content management systems and tacking on my blog. No more reliance on hosting bills and root for something that was a fickle pastime. But now I'm back and ready to rock with a blog hosted on Blogger

It seems almost full circle in a way as Blogger was one of my earliest (although Livejournal was the absolute first) blog services and I never thought I'd return officially. I was agonising over Wordpress.com as it is a really great system and the packages available are so completely full of goodies. The problem is that I know that I can be fickle, I know that I also like control over what I publish too.

It comes down to the mortality of my blog. I look at Google and know that here's a company that's going to last; and, on the back of this super massive search engine, Blogger is going to last too. I want my ramblings to live on and the Blogger service affords me that. Wordpress would allow it too, but I really decided the only real thing that I wanted was the immortality of a blog. Nothing else was important. Once I'd agonised enough, and narrowed it down to one thing, I realised that the free Blogger was the obvious choice.

So I integrated Disqus for the comments system, prepped up some widgets for the sidebar that I'll add soon, whipped up some semi retro CSS and renamed my blog as an amalgamation of all the blog names before it.

I'm currently working on an entry over on my business' blog to really talk about how social networking has moulded and changed me. It's probably the reason I'm coming back to this blog after such a long time.

Anyway. Here's to a new decade of blogging. My blogging career has so far managed to span 3 decades and 2 millennia and this time it's here to stay