Since he was the only one out and since I was in the mood to take pics, here’s one of Cece. He just lay there quietly sunning.

More kittycats at: BKCFoC CotC ARK WCB

Thirteen things good and bad about WordPress.com.

1. It’s free.

2. It has some 60 themes, that’s more than Blogger but way less than the offerings at WordPress.org for blogs hosted elsewhere. And elsewhere one is free to create their own theme.

3. Can’t customize the CSS without paying extra. Blogger you can and elsewhere you can do pretty much what you want. Although some themes allow for custom header images and a minimal amount of changing like Hemingway one can choose white or black.

4. One size thumbnail, small, very small whereas elsewhere you can choose sizes providing you have something like Flexible Upload. Even in WP 2.5, you have 3 choices and in Miscellaneous Options can adjust thumbnail and medium sizes.

5. Has a wide variety of widgets including Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, Sonific songspots and 9 text widgets. That’s more than WP 2.5 or Blogger has although WP 2.5 can have more than one text widget which when made specify the name of the widget, helps keep track of which is which.

6. Doesn’t accept Blogrolling blogrolls. Have to import links one at a time which is a big bother.

7. Haven’t tried blogging from Flickr using their thumbs so don’t know there whether that is an option.

8. Obviously, if you could blog elsewhere, wouldn’t need the WordPress.com blog where you can’t blog elsewhere. Blogger, you can use your own site or Blogspot to host your blog.

9. Akismet comes with the blog, don’t need to get an API key to use the service.

10. You can specify a domain name other than ___.wordpress.com provided you control the domain.

11. You can import a blog from elsewhere, Blogger, MT, LiveJournal even other WordPress blogs. I haven’t done this.

12. You can’t add plugins or themes.

13. It uses a customized version of WordPress that is not the same as what one can use elsewhere.

There, that’s it. 13. Done.