Woah, I can't believe I've been missing out on Blogger. I mean, I haven't been living under a rock -- I knew about it. I read Blogger blogs all the time. And I do use w.Blogger to blog to both Drupal and e-Xoops. I just always assume that any free service is usually not such a good deal. (I'd love to link to some good examples of bad deals, but I refuse to increase their page rank).

Well, as usual, I've found another way to be wrong. It's not to surprising; both that I'm wrong again and that there are free things that are really good deals. I mean, my favorite applications are free, and they hold their own against any software one could purchase. When you think about, the most phenomenal service that has totally changed my life is a free service. (Oh, I could have put a lot of really bad jokes into that last link!)

In general, however, free things suck. They include fun things like pop-up windows, spyware, fraud scams, herpes and more. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I signed up for a Blogger account today to take it for a test drive. It's actually a top-notch blogging solution. I'm totally impressed. It's as good as any open source blogging software that I've tried, and I've installed dozens. It figures that Google bought Blogger, because this is just the sort of simple, straight solution to a need with nothing stupid attached, that Google seems to deliver again and again.

True, I have no need another blog for myself, but the test drive was a lot of fun and will definitely result in recommendations to friends and family.