New home for my blog

So I've recently migrated over to blogspot. This decision was really borne out of very frivolous and insignificant reasons, nothing earth-shatteringly major. If you really wanted to know, it was mainly cos of two things: 1) I wanted to add some fancy schmanzy widgets, and wordpress was giving me hell for wanting to install them, and 2) My white-as-milk theme was getting quite old and I didn't have the slightest idea how to create mastheads and stuff in wordpress. And maybe a third reason would be that I am currently at a stage where I am enamoured with the idea of starting things on a new slate, whatever that means. Oh, and being jobless at the moment also had something to do with it (what do I do with this ridiculous amount of free time??).

Initially I was hesitant to move to blogspot, because I was already quite happy with wordpress and I enjoyed the fact that it was the less popular of the two. I like most things obscure and underrated anyway, and I was reluctant to start a blogspot account especially since nearly the whole blogging population blogs with them (Blogger is owned by Google, after all). At first I equated the idea of my switching to blogspot with selling out, in blogging terms. I even told a friend that the act of shifting to the dark side (of blogging) reminds me of when Sugar Ray recorded Someday or when Incubus released Morning View.

Then again, at the end of the day, it's really got nothing to do with shifting allegiances or going down the sell-out path. If blogspot will let me have my widgets then fine, I'm there. No more over-analysing. But now the fifty cent question...how does one export wordpress entries to blogspot? I was faced with this daunting task made even more daunting by the fact that I am a big tech idiot. After some googling, I downloaded this nifty little application, read and re-read the instructions that came with it, and trial-and-errored my way to export more than half of my wordpress posts to blogspot (apparently the app can only export a max of 50 entries per day). I am usually quite modest about personal achievements, but this time I must admit that I am mighty proud of myself for that awesome little tech feat (if you could even call it that).

As I mentioned, part of the reason why I decided to rehaul my blog was because I wanted to add more colour and oomph to the layout, but surprise surprise, I still ended up with a rehashed white-as-milk theme. Well, at least I've got a header now. I guess this whole futile exercise is just trying to tell me that no matter how much I try to show people that I am a fun and creative person, I still cannot disguise the fact that deep down I am truly drab and blah.