So I'm changing platforms again! May be a temporary shift (as before), or maybe a longer term deal, but I think I'm ready again to take matters under my own hands. Here's how it's different this time though:

• All public LiveJournal posts and comments have been imported in-tact to the new site. Yep, all 570-something posts and 318 comments accumulated over five years.
• I have lots of neat tools already installed, including OpenID, meaning you can still post with your LiveJournal account, with an account from one of the many OpenID-ready vendors, or (and this was important to me) anonymously - whatever floats your boat.
• Search that works. Fast!
• Aggregates stuff from my other networks for me (i.e. Flickr, Twitter, Facebook [maybe]) so there's a better chance that there'll be some new stuff up there.
• Ad-free.

It costs me about 50 cents more a month to lease my own host than it does to remain a paid LiveJournal member (gets rid of the ads and makes the journal less fugly), but I can do so much more with it that I think I'm going to test the waters with the now-matured Wordpress platform once more. (And hey, if it goes bad, it's not an ordeal to import the remaining stuff back.)

Also... as much as I hate to admit it... I'm using Twitter now. I had a low opinion of the service, not at all helped by the technorati's (god, did I really use that phrase.... ugh....) inability to shut up about it.... but if you can't beat 'em...

So the new stuff's on dragaroo.net, and I'm dragaroo on Twitter, and everywhere else. (It's nice to have an unpopular name!)