I can't say I've been on Posterous long enough to definitively say this is where I'll be in the foreseeable future, but more and more I'm beginning to feel more comfortable with the platform. It's initial "emptyness" left me with a sense of impending doubt that I will learn to appreciate it's minimalistic approach to blogging. Surprisingly, just like DMB, it kinda grows on you, lol. At first glance it seems worlds away from anything remotely resembling a CMS/blogging platform like Wordpress, but that really isn't the case.  There are quite powerful tools/customizations available to the user if you know where to look and how to do it. The beauty of Posterous's minimalistic approach is it hides all that clutter aside making blogging a mindless exercise in stress relief. Which is good for me even if I would like to act as if I know my way around code (still learning...lol) the whole point of blogging for me was to get away from the crowd and just blabber and rant about anything and everything, which of late, twitter has firmly taken the reigns on. If Posterous can even get me to write half of my thoughts into blog posts instead of 140 character messages, then there would be no question on my mind as to the effectiveness of Posterous approach in my mind.

I'm still holding out on the day that I get a chance to actually write a more cohesive blog targeting a single market/group. Maybe if I find enough time on my hands I'll actually get around doing that. right now though the sporadic gaps that I find myself in are the only times I get to some of my thoughts together enough to write something coherent. Hopefully I can maintain a uniform tagging system to help me organize my posts later on.

So what do I plan to actually write about when I'm not ranting? ...I hope to write about tech stuff and new app discoveries, since I might as well share experiences after having spent much of my paltry savings on them, lol. Oh and one more thing...I'm a Mac fan, not because I know all the ins and outs of every technical details that separates each platform over another (although I try to study that when I have the time...makes for good conversational piece), but because it works and it looks good doing it, LOL.

Maintaining a hosting service was simply too draining and time consuming. Had I actually been knowledgeable with all the back end stuff maybe it would have been fruitful and fun, who knows. But with simply not having enough free time on my hands all the paid hosting site was another way to spend money that could be used for something else. I am still holding out on being able to someday set up a site on a paid hosting service again someday on my terms but for now the search for the best available free-hosting solution is still up for grabs.