technical gibberese
As you probably don't know, and definitely don't care, I've been using a system called Movable Type to run my site. To date, the software has been free; speaking as a college student, that has always been a large priority. Add to that the extensive feature list-- MT has been around for awhile, and it shows.
However, there's been some recent ugliness surrounding Six Apart's decision to charge for Movable Type. Like many other users, I don't have much of a gripe with paying people cash for something that makes publishing so easy, but I do have a problem with being forced to fork over US$100 for a newer version of software which doesn't really add anything new. They went commercial, and in the worst possible way. Those venture capital whores.
To be honest, I don't use most of the features that MT offers, like keywords or trackbacks, but I did put a bunch of time into my phone post script. Looking at my other alternatives, I'll probably go with WordPress. While I like the look of TextPattern, it doesn't support XML-RPC, which I use for all my phone posts.
Also was looking into something like PhotoStack for photo management, but I just like the flexibility of writing my own stuff. I have my own format, and while my photo album currently sucks, it isn't broken so I'm not in any hurry to fix it.
Oh, and of course ideally NONE of these changes should be visible. It's all backend stuff. No really. The only visible difference will be the lack of the Movable Type doohickey link at the bottom of the right panel.