As I made mention to in my last post, I’ve joined Jaiku. Since then, I’ve contracted the Jaiku bug. I’m on it every day several times a day. Though I have a feeling no one is paying attention to my feed. Maybe this will help that.
I’m divided. While I like writing these longer posts at times, often I find that it’s the very reason I don’t post to my blog more. I don’t feel like sitting down and writing a full blog post all the time. Not to mention that I tend to edit constantly and what starts as a 10 minute project easily turns into 20 or 30 minutes. Jaiku’s 140 character per post limit is useful at times because it forces you to say exactly what you want without any fluff.
For a couple of weeks now I’ve been debating on whether or not I want to continue hosting my blog. I bought hosting and a domain from GoDaddy back in February, but I haven’t bothered to transfer anything over yet. The main reason was because I planned to rewrite my own blog software in Ruby on Rails. The problem with that, however, is that I have to migrate all of my blog posts over to the new system. Also, Go Daddy’s Rails performance is poor. Not to mention that they don’t offer ssh access on my account (no Rails migrations).
The 3rd option is to move the blog over to a hosted blogging service. It’d probably be easy to import my posts, but I’m also sacrificing what I can do in terms of control. When I host it, I can customize things much more and I like that.
So I’m still undecided. One of these nights I just need to sit down and figure it all out or at least move my hosting over to Go Daddy.
