Tochi's Hut

One of my New Year resolutions is to blog more frequently. My old blog was in the sorry state of never being updated. After running into several annoying issues with Windows Live Spaces (no support anonymous comment posting, no custom picture alignment, retarded auto-save infrastructure, etc), I decided to give Blogger a try. With the Google Account integration, it can't hurt trying.

After logging into Blogger, I tried to create a new blog with the name 'tochihut' (surprise surprise). However, to my REAL surprise, this name was taken already! WHO else would want TochiHut.blogspot.com?!? Blogger offered some free alternatives, including 'tochi-tochihut' and 'tochihut-tochi'. It's pretty cool that they were able to recognize 'tochihut' as 'tochi' 'hut'. :)

Fast-forward a few minutes, it dawned on me that I created a Blogger account a while back. I had taken tochihut.blogspot.com and parked it, for future use. :) The sad, but happy truth is that no one else wanted 'TochiHut', except for me.

Blogger has a nice feature to link your old Blogger account to your Google Account. It took only a few clicks to get them hooked up. The options/settings on Blogger are so much easier to customize (i.e. Edit HTML). As fancy as Windows Live Spaces was, it's just not as mature as Blogger. I honestly gave Spaces a try, but when an amateur blogger like moi has problems with it, that's pretty sad.