icourtland!

as you see these new words from me, you may have noticed that the whole look of iCourtland is changed up. i got a little tired of the, well lets just be nice and say “poor” interface from Apple’s iWeb. i have to say that what you can do with it can look pretty nice, and if you host your site at your .mac account it is probably pretty good.
i did like the way adding pictures to any post was very easy, and you can control several elements of those pictures pretty well. however, since i don’t host this at .mac, it was a pain in the @$$ to get things posted and updated. since i did not enjoy the hoop-jumping so much i kind of lost the will to blog for a while.

as you can see – changes have been made

i am now a WordPress boy. it feels a little bloggeresque, but a lot more robust. we will have to see what happens over time.

it is my intention to do this a little more often, and with a little more to say than i have been as of late. as i went back and looked at some of my older posts compared to my recent, i realized that i quite possibly have been avoiding looking at or writing down more of the harder stuff. i do tend to self-edit more than i should, and maybe felt a little more exposed than i think i should have felt. but it has been pointed out to me recently that it is a good thing to “put ones self out there a little” in order to get the benefits of blogging and journaling. if i don’t sit here once in a while and really pour some stuff out, it is going to really build up in a bad way.

so all that said -  i am going to make an effort to really say something a little more often. there will likely still be some silly stuff in here too, it is me after all.

oh and another cool thing about the WordPress concept – comments are back!