The Jason Salas Experience

Since setting up my new domain this morning, I've been trying to customize and personalize the aesthetics of this Blogger-based weblog before I start working on importing the old data, if that's at all possible. I've used a .TEXT blog for nearly two full years and have really enjoyed working with it. While the former is perfectly suited for all sorts of users, .TEXT is a blogging tool by a developer for developers.

Here are some things I enjoy about Blogger over .TEXT:

• I can post to my blog from my mobile, from e-mail
• I can post blog about RSS-based posts via Google-integrated apps like Google Reader and other mash-ups implementing the major blog APIs (WordPress, MovableType, TypePad, et al.)
  
• Permalinks seem to be better integrated
• There's an internal search tool
• Permalinks are the actual URLs used for each post, reducing the need for separate/additional paths (which has always confused me)
  

However, nothing's perfect, and there are a few things I miss about .TEXT:

• Blogger, AFAIK, won't let me setup custom categories each with its own RSS feed
• The site's default RSS feed is Atom only, not RSS 1.0 and/or RSS 2.0, and doesn't appear on the page
  
• I don't like the fact that each blog post's title doesn't link to a dynamic page (the archiving is kinda weird, but I'm a programmer so I like dynamics like that)
• I'm still trying to figure out where to find stats
• I've neven been a fan of the "/this-is-my-blog-post.html" file naming convention