Planet Plone now lists the feed address to my new blog, thanks to Jon Stahl and Sean Kelly (and Mikko Wyn “asigottech” Ohtamaa, a.k.a. moo-_- Williams). “New” since I’m getting older and lazier, “having fun” no longer means “transmogrifying Plone into a blogging engine” to me. SimpleBlog and Scrawl have served very well, but life is just too short. And WordPress is just too good, php or not.

I’m hosting this blog, and several others for good friends, using an almost free off-the-shelf webhosting account. And yes, it is true: installing WordPress does actually take just five minutes.

Trying out WordPress also serves another purpose: Getting to know my enemy. I’ve lost several bread-and-butter accounts the last few months to WordPress shops. Let’s face it: Those days are over, when you could charge more than little for a simplistic website which the end-user can modify through the web…

(The images show legendary ugly Swedish ad postcards, from a time long gone.The slogan means “Start a computer course now!”.)