I’m using WordPress, which I installed on my SliceHost host. There are a lot of choices for blogging in 2009, but because I’ve had root privileges on a lot of Unix systems over my career, I chose a hosting solution where I would also have root privileges. This allows me to experiment with things like Ruby, WordPress and whatever other software strikes my fancy.
Installation was straightforward, following the package directions. I stumbled over the interaction between MySQL and WordPress, because I used “localhost” in my MySQL configuration, but the actual IP address of my host in the wp-config.php file, but the error message identified the problem, and after a little poking, we’re off!