The Bane of Technology
Well, my laptop was sent off on monday.
And I’ve been waiting…
and waiting…
and waiting…
…
No, I couldn’t bear it any longer – but ringing up the company only revealed that they’re waiting for a part to come in, and they’re not expecting it well into next week ><
So, that’s more precious time wasted – so far I count around 3 weeks of training time wasted, which would’ve been enough to get me a considerable way through the support skills I’ve been meaning to train to Level V.
The Blog
One thing I’ve discovered is that it’s very hard to talk about EVE like this when you’re not playing it. I’ve been trying to come up with ideas of posts I could write while I’m not playing, but I haven’t got anywhere with them.
On the plus side, this means that it’ll be a relief to get back into EVE when my computer arrives, and with any luck I’ll be able to start posting regularly again.
Blogger?
While perusing a number of the other EVE blogs, I’ve noticed that the majority of them seem to be hosted on Google’s blog platform, Blogger. Though I’m aware I don’t have must of a reader-base yet, I’m curious to hear what you think about the WordPress vs. Blogger debate? And, more importantly, is it worth switching to Blogger while there isn’t much to lose, as opposed to realizing later and then trying to import archive after archive of posts and comments?
Testing 1… 2… 3…
This post is also a test post for twitterfeed, which should hopefully post new blog posts to my EVE Twitter Account (@tyrodia ) automatically now.
That’s all for now!
Fly Interesting o/
Personally, I’m a huge fan of WordPress, and if you outgrow your free hosting here, you’re more likely just to export out from it and import to a self-hosted WP blog, IMNSHO.
That was the opinion I held – wordpress seems to have more elegance and style in general. It’s good to hear this opinion, and it’s why I’m still not sure why most Bloggers (eve, anyway) have chosen Blogger…
I use Blogger as it is simple to publish with, integrates easily with a single account for following other blogs, tracks blogs with the RSS reader and allows me to use the same account for comments on many other blogs out there.
It is a matter of familiarity also, as a google product it tends to work quite well and there are a whole host of easy to use plug-ins when comparing to a dedicated source such as WP.
I use RSS for following most other blogs, and can subscribe with one click from most of the websites straight into Google Reader anyway.
I also use the WordPress OpenID for most of my comments, so though I can see how both these points could be useful, I need neither :)
Another question I had for Blogger users was whether they found using AdSense on their blogs brought in any kind of income – have you had any experience with this?