I know what you're thinking: He didn't change anything but the header image. Everything else looks the same.

Ah, but so much has changed. I've retired my Wordpress-powered blog, and am now using a completely free service called Posterous. I'm not sure what their business model is; as you can see, there are currently no ads of any sort, and they've yet to offer any "premium" services. But, by the time they become the Geocities of the 2010s, I'll likely have moved on to something else.

There are lots of glowing reviews of Posterous out there, but I can tell you it's not perfect. Customization is somewhat limited and difficult. For instance, on my old site, I hand-rolled my own video player. Now I'll have to embed YouTube's ugly player.

However, the downside of Wordpress is that it begs to be customized. Believe it or not, despite the boring vanilla look of the site, I spent countless hours tinkering under the hood.

And all I had to show for it was 20 measly blog entries.

Posterous, like Wordpress, allows you to post via email. Unlike Wordpress, Posterous is designed so that the most sensible way to post is via email. Attached media is posted as inline images, video and audio. Paste a YouTube link, and a player is automatically embedded.

Anyway, this behind the scenes stuff is probably not very interesting to most of you, and obviously there's no telling whether I'll actually be motivated to post more often. But I'm encouraged.

And, now that I've got this up and running, I vow to stop tinkering and just concentrate on content. I'll sit in Starbucks and dash off quick updates via email. That's what I'm doing right now, in fact.

That's my story. Let's hope it continues.