I'm not doing self-hosting for a blog... life is too short for that. However, I don't want to pay to be on a social networking site that has a blogging component, and that's really what LiveJournal was. I don't do any of the social networking on there.
WordPress offered me a blog for free, and I left it because all the cool Fedora people were using LiveJournal... should have known. Fedora is cool, the community is cool, but for me, LiveJournal wasn't the right fit. If I learned anything from observing that community, it is that open, solutions are good and people should be able to use whatever they want. I'll probably just pay the $10 to get mvpittman.com to point here, and move all my files and random junk here, and pay for an upgrade to get rid of ads...
Not sure why I didn't use TypePad/Movable Type... maybe I will. I don't think WordPress will try to trap me. The export/import functions are pretty good. I'm glad I wasn't on LJ more than a few months, since I can only export one month worth of posts at a time.
I'll have to e-mail people who weren't looking at my blog through a redirect like http://blog.mvpittman.com and make sure they know about my new headquarters for world domination... all three of them. I guess I had better get my domain name stuff in order too. I switched from FastMail to TuffMail on a trial, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up keeping TuffMail. It's cheaper for what I do and FastMail does lots of things well, but I only need them to do e-mail. I guess that's another blog post... I've been taking notes for that one.
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