A friend of mine recently emailed me back in response to a question I asked about IP tracking. After a short reply to my question, he asked why i don't publish my weblog using Frontpage. Being a non-Blogger, he wasn't aware there are publishing tools out there specifically made for blogs. There's Grey Matter. You have the more popular Moveable Type. Then there's the promising Plog tools from Pinoy Blog. Come to think about it there's a slew of blogging tools out there, many of which I haven't heard of just yet. Hmmmm...I wonder what Petrol uses to publish his blog. He's been bitten by the opensource bug. He's gone gaga over Mozilla. LOL. Anyway, if I had my own desktop, I'd probably be just as obsessed by opnesource tools and software.

Of course, there's my choice for publishing my blog -- Blogger. Why? Three things. I don't have a computer at home, so I need a publishing tool I can access anywhere without the need to download. Blog from anywhere! That means web-based tools like Blogger are on top of my list. Second is I don't want to bother with FTP'ing my site updates. FTP uploads are tricky for the script-stupid like yours truly. I simply don't have the patience. If I get a computer of my own, I might develop enough to eventually learn code. Third, Blogger is self-contained. Everything you need under one roof ...Ummmm, correction, almost everything you need. And it's free, too. They give you access to a web-based publishing tool and they host your blog for free. I don't get image-hosting but I store my images on another free server and link them to me blog. Good thing they still allow that on my image host (linking, I mean), otherwise my blog will have to go bare.

In the end, it all boils down to when I get my very own machine that I can abuse till my eyes bleed. I'd probably be CHMOD'ing right now if I already did have my own machine. In the meantime, Blogger will suffice.