Blogging for my friends

I've gone back and forth with this blog thing. I'm not going to put myself out there and become a public blog, mainly because I want to protect a little bit of my privacy. I've always had a personal website but I just wanted to share things with my circle of family and friends. I tinkered with iWeb but it never felt right. Blogger seems to be very easy but also a bit limiting at times. WordPress is nice but it feels too open and sometimes overwhelming to operate. So I'm going back and forth between them.

I'm also influenced by my computer platform. The fact is my macBook has been assimilated by my wife. My oldest daughter has an even nicer macBook. So I am forced to use the PC from work. Not that I'm complaining! I have learned how to move back and forth between a Mac and a PC pretty well now. And I just got a new HP tablet that works quite well. It is also really small so I don't mind dragging it around. It's just that I'm forced into the PC world, which always seems both overwhelming and unfriendly.

In the end, I really just want to share with the people I know and love, not strangers on the Internet. So bear with me as I try to reach out to my friends...and learn how to use these damn programs!

For example, I wrote this blog post just so I could see how easy it is to add pictures to a single post using Blogger. Enjoy this picture taken by my daughter at the Botanic Gardens: