Over a year has passed now since I first installed WordPress.

I know, it is supposed to be written WordPress, but I forgot that at the beginning - and now I do not want to change all my old posts, so I am gonna stick with Wordpress.

Hopefully, the community does not mind.

Some time around July 2006, Tim told me about this wonderful server-based software that makes your life so much easier, and so I thought I should give it a try. He himself started using WordPress a week after I wrote my first post - and since then, we have been a mutual inspiration to each other.

Critics say (or should I say: only Tim says) that this WordPress blog here consists more of plugin-related stuff than anything else - well, I must admit that the search query “plugin” shows about 23% of all my posts at this time - hey, but that is not too bad, is it? That leaves 77% other stuff!

But I must admit that it is not that easy to write interesting articles that make people want to kill only to subscribe to your feeds. Remember: there are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there… why is anyone supposed to visit yours?

Well, here are 3 examples of blog writers who seem to have found out what good articles are all about:

• lorelle.wordpress.com
• bueltge.de
• alexking.org/blog/

Well, let’s see where this blogging will lead me. At least, I am very happy to got to know WordPress, because now I am really interested in PHP and MySQL.

And who knows: maybe I will write a nice little plugin myself one day…

So, once again:
thank you, WordPress, for a wonderful blogging experience!

[Update from 2008-07-15]
If I had only known how easy it is to update the database - now every Wordpress has become WordPress, I hope.