Going on a 5th incarnation of my personal blog, I think I might actually stick with this one as opposed to the others that I’ve tried. I tried PHP-Nuke, but didn’t have use for 99% of their capabilities. Plus, I don’t need a whole CMS for a simple blog. As a PHP developer, I tried writing my own, but seemed like too much effort for something I didn’t even know if I’d end up using. Then, I went against my programmer roots and went with gasp… a hosted blog. But as I assumed, the lack of control killed it for me. Since I have plenty of experience managing my own Windows and Linux servers, going with someone else to host my blog just wasn’t going to fly. So here we are, I just discovered WordPress and am fairly happy with it so far. Installation was a breeze and the interface is great, so it’s easy to understand why this is becoming one of the more popular blog platforms out there.