One of the blogs I read is Creating Passionate Users, its a good read, about how to properly market whatever it is that you are peddling. They have some nice points, even if you don’t talk the marketing language, I still recommend you give it a read, it is great general information stuff. I certainly am no master car sales man, but this stuff is just so basic it is compelling. Not enough companies out there are doing anything to keep you interested in their product, really, I can not think of many, yet even with all the “smokers being treated like leppers” stuff that goes on today, I have to admit, the folks over at Phillip Morris USA are pretty on point.

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I finally got around to installing WordPress and I have to say, job well done. The install could not have been easier! The only hiccup I ran into was i did not allow drop privs to the database, which made WordPress choke a little. Other than that, it has been pretty smooth sailing, I looked at MoveableType for a bit in the past for a photoblog of mine, but eventually spam took over the comments and I just did not have the time to look into a RBL for it. I am sure spam comments will get to me on WordPress as well, but for the time being, I am clean. I fully do not even understand the whole trackback system, I mean, I know what it is, but I am at a loss as to what to do with the fields and such.

Right now, I am entering this first post in the awesome MarsEdit by Ranchero Software. Other than a little lack of documentation on what to set the RPC url to and blog ID, it was pretty painless as well. I have to say, this seems to be one app I will be using all the time, it has it’s rough spots, bur for a version 1.0 release, it is stellar. Speaking of which, there is a great read over at DrunkenBlog with the owners of Ranchero Software, I highly recommend you take a look.