Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Not really as alarming as the post title suggests but a post from Trend Micro's blog highlights a few surprising and a few unsurprising dangers on the internet from 2010. Trend Micro's blog:  http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Original post:  http://blog.trendmicro.com/2010s-most-dangerous-list/ In summary: Riskiest hardware: German ID card readers Riskiest website software: Wordpress Most dangerous IP:  Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Riskiest OS:  Apple’s Mac OS X Most dangerous website: Google Most dangerous social network: Facebook Most dangerous top level domain: CO.CC Riskiest file format: PDF More details are given in the original post from Trend Micro.

So the time has come to move to a more advanced blog engine for my blog. blogger.com , Google's blogging service, has served me well. It's incredibly easy to use and to get started with, along with having some great features such as inbuilt stats; however now I need a few more advanced features and greater control over the blog. There's a vast array of blog engines out there, some free, some paid for, some hosted, some self-hosted, and picking which one is best or the right choice could be a little bit tricky. This article from Mashable lists most of the main options and bigger players -  http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/ . There are a few parameters that I've kind of decided on Ease of installation/compatibility and support with web hosts Simple to use. I don't want to spend ages clicking around just to add a post or format it. Feature rich and well supported. Most blog engines should have a fairly standard set of features now such RSS/ATOM fe...