I was thinking the other day about this blog, how I don’t blog often enough, and why that might be. I found plenty of excuses, of course the real reason is because im not motivated to, but there are a few other reasons around it. Firstly, perhaps wordpress isnt the best, I mean its good, I like it, but i find it an absolute nightmare to make my blog appear in the correct font, I normally have to write it in Word (gasp), then paste it into wordpress, then spend at least 10 minutes formating, a pretty terrible experience.
Yet it appears from the interface im typing into now I cant even select a font, surely thats a missing feature, I mean I dont want anything else, just font size, font family and bold or italic (which I can do). My other rant is about password, wherever I have to change it, ive never found it, subsequently everytime I have to log in I have to report my password as lost, generate a new one, go to my mail etc. Boring.
The human reason I dont blog so often, appart from being lazy, is that many of the thoughts I have or things I have a “potentially” interesting opinion on are non-IT related, and I suppose I’ve always felt this blog was my work-based output, so maybe ill change that, and change my blogging provider.
Thats it really, hopefully when I read this tommorrow it will remind me to do something about it.
Davids Computer Life 
Why would you want to set the font for an article? Surely that would be set in the stylesheet?
I wouldn’t worry about tayloring your writing to your audience. If you’ve got something you want to say, write it.
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The work-based vs non-work based output is what is putting me off blogging.
I’ve thought about setting up two blogs (one geek one, one non-geek one).
What would be nice is if wordpress supported multiple RSS feeds – so you could have a geek feed, and a non-geek feed – tagging stories as appropriate to get them into the correct feed.
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True Kerry, I suppose my complaint is at the interface, i mean a blog shouldnt need me to know about css surely.
Robbie and Alkesh, yes it a tricky one, i might have a go at putting some non-work blogging content and seeing how it goes down!
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