DEVTRENCH’s Wordpress Dominion

Hello world!

April 15, 2008 by devtrench

Hey, so I thought it would be cool to check out wordpress.com and set up a domain here for DEVTRENCH. So far, I think it is really cool and can see why lots of people use this free service. I also never understood how wordpress.com makes $$. Well, it’s pretty obvious when you login and see that you can upgrade your account. These guys are smart

On the right is the rss feed from my real blog, a wordpress install on a shared host. This allows me to customize WP however I want so I like that better for my blogging, but this is still neat.

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The feed from my real blog.

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