a man in exile

I am currently in a state of web hosting exile; my old host has turned into a steaming pile of feces and I am now searching for a suitable host for my various websites.

While in exile, I figured I’d give wordpress.com a go, as it seems my days at diaryland are numbered. It’s at this point that I wish desperately that I was not using the hosted wordpress, and instead using my own installation, as many of the options that I’m switching from diaryland in order to use are not actually accessible in this incarnation of wordpress (such as adding footnotes).

I’ve already found a few things about wordpress.com that annoy me, but I’m under the impression that most of them can be changed when using a personal installation. Time will tell.

So here I am — finally writing in a space that can handle comments per post (RIP guestbooks), categories, tags, and all sorts of other goodies. I’m finally coming into this millennium.

Wish me luck, and while you’re at it, feel free to recommend some books for me to read over the year, ’cause I sure as heck don’t have anything better to do during reading week…