I was a Livejournal devotee for many years. I still use it for personal blogging, because nobody else (that I know of) has friends lists, pages where I can easily read everything that all my friends have posted at once. And I admit that I also avoided WordPress for years because I dated a dickweed who was obsessed with it. But now that I've given it a shot for this blog, I have to say, I love it. Especially for my very favorite feature: it tells me when people link to me and talk about my blog!

Recently, that led me to awesome new blogging ideas from Claire at CookThink. She shares some of her concerns when planning meals....