well a conversation or two with tallskinnykiwi followed by an e-mail exchange with bob carlton followed by seeing how the categories and photo albums work in typepad was enough to start me out on a journey of switching over from blogger. i like blogger, i like my old blog. in honour of it i have brought some of the colours from that into the design for this one to give a feel of continuity. at this stage i haven’t spent much time on the look – probably looks shocking, but then i haven’t told the world about this yet. i’m also not ading links at this stage as with the new trackback and rss (which i have yet to understand) other people will find out i have linked to them and therefore that this new blog exists. i can’t let that happen until at least it looks a bit better! having had a free service for a year and a half i’m now going to be paying for the privilege but hopefully it will be worth it. so a new chapter in the blooging journey begins….