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Live: Broadcasting from Oregon
Out taking photos in the Tualatin Hills Nature Park in Beaverton, OR
I’m firing up now my first self-hosted WordPress blog — broadcasting live from my temporary abode in Beaverton, Oregon. This first post is really just a test of my new server, analytics and hosting settings, as all of my other WordPress blogs have been on wordpress.com, and not using the WordPress.org blogging software.
I must say, as a web developer and search engine tweaker, it is an infinitely better and more rewarding experience to host it yourself, as there are so many more tools you can put to use and ways to manage and monitor what’s going on. Hope to have quite a bit of fun with this in the near future.
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