(In)auspicious beginnings

Well here goes my first foray into a blog on Blogger; I've had a blog on Xanga for some time now which I post to with varying degrees of regularity. From the sound of it, it looks like we're going to set up a blogring out of all the folks in this class, and it will be the first time I've fooled around with any of that. My wife's big on blogrings, but I'm still a comparative Luddite when it comes to that. I think you can't really mix and match different "flavors" of blogs in rings - that is to say that if we're all on Blogger, we couldn't go and add someone using a different suite. That's a little limiting, considering how much is out there.

My practicum this past semester involved a little work on blogs, too. the University Libraries Outreach department uses something much like a blog called Moveable Type. All the software I've seen is pretty sophisticated, but Moveable Type has some options I haven't unearthed yet in Xanga. That's getting a little esoteric for a first post, though, I guess. On to posting, so I can work out how to modify the template I settled on, and how to change around some defaults.