hullo internets! we have been away working a LOT lately…and then making up for all that work with a thanksgiving weekend of sloth and gluttony. now we are trying to get all that life/work/play back into some sort of balance in advance of the christmas storm.

today’s question: preferred blogging software? while i do want cred* for the fact that i hand-coded my blog in the beginning, the truth of the matter is, blogger makes my life easy. but then i start to wonder what else is out there that i might be missing, all these years i’ve been together with blogger.

for example, who out there uses wordpress, and do you like it? there’s an obscure widget that i’d like to use for the nike+ that is only available for wordpress. but is there something about having to pay to publish to your own domain? and also listed among their “premium” features is customizable CSS. does that mean that i’m stuck with their stock templates unless i pay a fee? their website = not so helpful, which gives me cause for concern. it might be silly for me to think of dumping blogger over one widget. like leaving the good, safe, slightly-boring boyfriend for a guy with a motorcycle and no job.**

*when i started slithy-tove, i hand-coded it because 1) i was a software engineer back then, and 2) blogger hadn’t even been born yet. also, we still called them weblogs. yes, i am old.

**yeah, cause i’ve never made that mistake.