After careful consideration, I have decided to begin blogging on my own privately hosted site: et.cairene.net. If you have subscribed to my feedburner feed (i.e., http://feeds.feedburner.com... then your subscription will follow. For me, it came down to this: I want more control than a community-hosted service can supply (free or otherwise). The quite reasonable changes here at GeeksWithBlogs resulted in pushing me to this conclusion, but I would have gotten there anyway. Thanks...

I stopped posting over the last few days due to the service changes at GeeksWithBlogs. They have decided to include advertisements on all of their hosted blogs and feeds. I can understand their need: the community is growing rapidly and it's costing more money to support. I would have preferred it if we (as a part of this community) had been given a chance to comment on this change and even been given the option of ponying up some money. My guess is that many members here would pay in advance for...