I may have been precipitous in moving to WordPress.  There are definitely ways in which Blogger is superior. This is not surprising – Google offers wonderful products, and Blogger is no exception.  This is how they get you hooked. I am getting paranoid as I get older, however, and although I know I haven’t really got anything to fear (I would never be of interest to them), I like the idea of having my eggs in separate baskets.

Not that I regret it, there are just some things I wish were different here.  There seem to be fewer available themes – or at least fewer free themes – in WordPress, and you can’t customize them as much.  This theme is the closest I could find to what I liked, and I am still not quite happy with it.  The headlines in the sidebar are a shade too big and look crowded.  I could pay to be able to tweak them, and I may, or I may switch to another theme.  I like the category clouds:  I am working on getting my posts categorized so that the cloud will make sense. Of course, I could have done a category cloud in Blogger, too, I just never got around to it. The colors are pretty good, though, so all-in-all it’s okay for now.  I like dark themes too, so I may change them on an occasional basis.  Playing about with themes is a great deal of fun, either here or on Blogger.

One feature I like immensely is the ability to past copy directly from Word.  I don’t always have access to Internet when a thought comes to me or when I have time to write; it is nice to be able to simply write things down in Word and past them into the blog later.  I wonder if I can insert music into the Word file and simply copy it over to the blog…

Interestingly enough, one advantage that Blogger has over WordPress – its clearly superior stats reporting – is a bug for me. I am moving to WP in part because I was getting just too obsessed with my Blogger stats.  I was checking them the way some people reflexively refresh their inbox, and more than I generally check my email.  The WP stats do not give me enough information to be really useful, or,  in my case to become the object of obsession.

I have discovered by virtue of reading online forums that Blogger versus WordPress is in some corners a religious war.  Each has their partisans.  It reminds me of the traditional Mac v. Microsoft  war that has been going on since the first Macintosh in 1984.

So, we’ll see.  I have every intention of staying here, inconveniences aside.   I like not being part of the Borg; or at least not totally part of the Borg.

*I am an agnostic in that war: I have always had Macs, but much to my family’s horror I actually like parts of the Windows interface better.  For someone who tends to have a lot of programs going on at once, It is much cleaner and more convenient to have them lined up along the bottom of the screen rather than piling on top of one another, since I often click on the wrong open window.