This is my very first blog post on my new WordPress site. I\u2019ve been thinking about doing this for quite some time. I\u2019ve set up a few very basic sites in the past (and this one continues the theme) and the site we have at work is based on WordPress (though not quite so basic).<\/p>\n
What pushed me from Live Spaces to WordPress? As you might notice, I am a big Microsoft fan. I try to keep things simple and use their integrated products as much as I can. However, I got more and more frustrated with Live Spaces as a blog service as time went by. It hasn\u2019t developed at all since I started using it back in 2006. During the summer they changed the all-too-basic stat counter so it wouldn\u2019t record RSS statistics. All the while the amount of spam comment postings was mad. Lately it\u2019s gotten to be unbearable. Microsoft\u2019s support wouldn\u2019t respond either via Live or via other avenues so I decided to make a change. Finally, I wanted a search engine for my blog. Live doesn\u2019t have that and WordPress does. I use my blog as my personal notebook and I got tired of using Google to search my Live blog.<\/p>\n
So here I am!<\/p>\n
All this was made possible by many people:<\/p>\n
This will be an ongoing learning experience for me. I\u2019ve got to learn things like SEO, tagging (why the heck is it different to categories!), etc. I\u2019ve put in a bunch of SEO and associated plug-ins and I\u2019m hoping they do the work for me! We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
For now, the Live blog is dead. I\u2019m going to be bringing the whitepapers over as time goes by. All live content will be on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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