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I’ve been thinking of starting a blog for a little while now. I often have thoughts, discoveries, and other bits and pieces I’d like to share with the world at large but have always been too lazy to muck around editing my website. Only recently it hit me just how prevalent blogs were on the net these days, and I began to toy with the idea that this may just be the answer to my problems.

I’ve been looking at various free PHP/MySQL-based blog engines but hit the obvious snag that at the moment, my site isn’t hosted somewhere where I have access to these services. Additionally, I really couldn’t be bothered figuring out how to set all this up. I know I could do it, but I’ve got far better things to do right now. I just wanted something that worked - and that led me to Google’s Blogger.

I really love Google. This love affair began with the search engine, and has extended to the marvelous Gmail (more on this in a subsequent blog). Blogger gave me an instant blog, with zero mucking around. In fact it took, from the moment I logged onto the website, to my first entry, no more than 10 minutes. You beaut! I actually found Blogger a little while ago, but it was today’s realisation that I could host it from my own domain that really clinched the deal.

So there you have it folks. For a simple, no-worries, just-works (like everything else Google) blog writer, I couldn’t recommend Blogger more highly. So far my only complaint is that I can’t categorise my blogs. I’d like to group the tech-related entries separately from, say, medical-related entries. One day this may make me upgrade to something more serious, but for the time being Blogger rules.