Having hosted my “world of it blog” on word press for well over a year, I have finally got around to installing wordpress on my www.davidcoxon.com site.

WordPress boast an impressive 5 minute install, but that was not actually the case when i came to install it on www.davidcoxon.com, it in fact think it was more like 2 minutes, download the zip file, copy it over to the httpdoc folder on the server, cut and paste the database details to the config file, generate a couple of lines of code, rename the config file, enter the url of the blog into the browser , enter a name for the blog and write my first post. Job done.

Why do i blog?

The reason i started a blog in the first place was to see what this whole blogging thing was about and to give blogger a go before suggesting it for user projects. That first blog i named ’david coxon’s it blog‘ and intended to discuss all manner of it from software and hardware to social networking and the internet. I then decided to check out wordpres to see how it compared. I started a second blog ‘worldofitblog‘. Now that i had 2 blogs to play with i decided to play good blog, bad blog, putting helpful hints and software recommendations on blogger and details of security breaches, hacks and viruses on the other.

So why do i need a third blog? and what am i going to do with it?

I quite like the wordpress.com format, its easy to use, gives me nice stats and there are lots of plugins, but on the negative side, i keep finding bits of code i’d like to add to pages and find that i can’t because its not supported on .com and requires wordpress.org so i decided to give it a go. The question then was if i already have good blog and bad blog, what do i put on the third (ugly) blog? I thought of combining all 3 blogs onto davidcoxon.com but then i thought again and decided that i’d make davidcoxon.com a little more personal. I live in Newcastle and am involved with projects like supermondays, codeworks connect, tuttlene, barcampne and Thursday fizz, so i’m likely to talk a bit about those events as well.