Chaos - I'm using Blogspot. http://www.blogspot.com It's owned by google and therefore works really well with the Google suit of products, specifically picasa which is used to manage pictures. Its pretty intuitive. I'm no expert, but if you have any questions let me know and I'll try to answer them as best I can.

Brady- thanks for the encouragement. I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty. I too have the convenience of it not being my primary driver so it can be out of commission with out affecting me too much. Although it does take up more space than I imagined. And I suspect it will be down for a little more than a couple weeks. Let's put it this way, I stopped paying insurance on it.

I'm going to try to update it once a week, at least when I'm able to accomplish something.

stay tuned, found some not-so-interesting stuff this week.....new entry will be going up on Sunday, SUNDAY, sunday........saturday's only!

Mike