What to do about these Blogs.

Problems

• Wordpress 1.5.1.3 is finally getting knocked around by the spammers.
• My blog has 833 posts in it, not a trivial amount of history. I don't really want to abandon it all.

Snipsnap

Pros:

• I already have it
• it's rare enough that it isn't too likely to get targeted by arbitrary spammers; if someone specifically wants to get at me, there's little I can do about it no matter what software I run
• I know how to use it

• nasty java thing so it's pretty resource heavy (although voyager can keep it going assuming we don't get Dugg or Slashdoted)
• depends on voyager staying alive… which depends on my keeping this job (not currently at risk, but you never know)
• not being developed any more
• not exactly a friendly weblog platform (it's much better at being a wiki than a weblog)

Upgrade Wordpress to something more current

Pros:

• keep history
• keep my own site
• I can probably figure out how to drive it myself

• theme would break which would mean learning enough CSS and wordpress internals to fix it myself (unlikely) or finding a different theme (far more likely)
• antispam would break
• I'd lose all my tags since that's an added plugin for 1.5.1.3, and the data isn't stored the same way that the built-in features are
• fixing all that would be boring and take time I don't have
• and in six months there'll be yet another upgrade which would either repeat these problems or invent new ones

Blogger

Pros:

• free
• reasonably flexible
• it's Google, so you know it'll never go away (until it does)

• the planet inexplicably can't deal with the time stamps on the RSS feed, all the blogger posts show up five hours in the past
• xdroop.blogspot.com not available
• no ability to backup content easily, so content would have to be disposable
• no ability to import my existing history

Wordpress.com

Pros:

• free, upgrades available
• xdroop.wordpress.com site name
• history can be imported (already tried, it mostly works)
• nice editor

• about as flexible as Blogger, but with WordPress you expect much more.
• no textile parsing
• it's not Google

Write my own software

Pros:

• does everything I want
• total control

• what are you, drunk? I don't have time to be writing this list, let alone write even a half-assed weblog software.