This Blog is in a new place

Yesterday I stayed home from work and, among other things, fiddled around with Blogger and looked at some of the interesting things I can do with it. Atom feeds! Lists! Blogrolls (or whatever the equivalent is in Blogger).Polls! Google! Ad Sense! All vey intresting...

Some of the features, however, were only usable if I actually hosted my blog with Blogger/Google. Well, that didn't seem that great, because I don't like the "blogger." thingy in the URL. It turns out there's another option. Purchase a domain name (it's cheap!), and then host the domain at Google. Click, click, done... then I had to wait for "24 to 48 hours" (actually, it was overnight) and I had my blog all magically hosted at Google, invisibly, because you get here by typing in abirdman.com, which is my new internet domain! Schweeet!

And there's no waiting for the stupid FTP server at my other hosting company to respond. Google seems almost instantaneous on updates. There are only a couple of "gotchas" with this setup: I don't think I can swear too much because I think I'm bound by Google's terms of use (people can mark my blog as inappropriate. Ohhh noes!). And if Google ever becomes the target of a DDOS attack, I assume my blog will be collateral damage. I guess we all take that risk.