My Secret, Scandalous Love Affair

I work a lot with WordPress. A lot, a lot. It's the software of choice for most people & businesses looking for a CMS. It's functionality is pretty damn sweet and with it's standalone package available for running off your own hosted account (and the fact it is almost completely customizable), WordPress is a no-brainer... except for one thing:

I have this secret love affair with Blogger.

While many moved on past Blogger once they became more serious bloggers, and took up residence at sites like WordPress and Live Journal, I've stayed here (I do briefly mention UFOs here, eventually). It hasn't always been easy, and there have been some major frustrations with it over the year -- namely, the use of Google's own propriety code which is not compliant with W3C standards. Not too big a deal for most, but for me, compliancy is a necessary evil that I have to tend to often, when designing and building sites for clients. Nevertheless, my attraction to Blogger has withstood it's sometimes not-so-minor issues.


One thing I have noticed -- a lot of us UFO and Esoteric nuts have a web presence here. In fact, so many of us are part of the Blogger community, that I am surprised when I come across a WordPress UFO blogsite. It seems somehow out of place. I imagine part of the reason as to why so many of us are here is because Blogger existed before WordPress and was one of the few popular free blogging systems around. Some of us are here because we don't know any better, and others are here because they tried everything else and hated them, for whatever reason, and realized that despite the bells and whistles of other platforms, Blogger was "home". And maybe Blogger reminds us of our respective areas of study: Unpopular, uncool and a little bit odd.

And so it was with me when I started thinking about Interstellar Housewife. I considered running it off of a host with a WordPress install, or even running off the WordPress site, but my heart decided on Blogger... this lil' CMS with a kooky spellcheck and, until recently, it's lack of a page creation function.

I hope Blogger appreciates us, her dedicated fans from the fringe. We've stuck it out and put up with the worst possible tech support that ever there was (I mean really, have you been to the support forums? Christ). I'd like to see her keep going -- defiant and unflinching, quirky and ill-compliant -- not too unlike myself.

That last bit was kind of cheesy.

Who am I kidding -- the whole thing was utter geek-cheese

By the way, I will now be blogging for UFO Magazine! My darling friend Erik Stitt of Contact will also be joining the ranks -- be sure to check out his site! Thanks to those who thought of me (especially Lesley). Between IHW, WOE, and now UFO Mag, I had better start whipping up things to write about!

Thanks again to all of you who read my little slice of the web. You are appreciated -- even those who would love to see me shut the fuck up.