It didn't take long for me to determine what CMS the government was using to run its 'Official Gazette' on gov.ph.

Stats.wordpress.com is one of the features used by Wordpress.com, a free blogging platform. When you load the site, Chrome (the browser I'm using), displays very quickly, as part of the loading process, the servers where files are being retrieved. The above screenshot happens just a quick half second before the site fully loads, so when I caught it the first time I was ready to press the printscreen button when I re-loaded it a second time.

This is documentation of how I moved Iamshallow.wordpress.com to a new domain, Tooshallow.com. This post may can also be referred as 'Moving a Wordpress.com blog to Self-hosted Wordpress' as the process is the same. I've broken it down into 3 stages:

• Preparing the domain name.
• Self-Hosted Wordpress Installation
• Importing from Wordpress.com to the new Self-Hosted Wordpress

I received a couple of .mov videos I wanted to upload on BallEx, which uses Wordpress 2.7.1, the latest version as I write this. I had never uploaded *hosted videos on Wordpress before other than the embedded versions from YouTube and similar services, so I decided to try it out, bandwidth issues begone. Turns out it wasn't as easy as I thought. Here's what I had to do. First of all, here's how my 'Add New Post' page on Wordpress looks like. I do not use the 'visual editor' since I usually write my posts in HTML. *Tip to bloggers out there: learning even a little HTML can give you much better control over your post's appearance. Anyway, right beside the words 'upload/insert', there are a few icons that indicate you can add an image, a video, an audio file or 'media'. I tried several times, 'Add Video' DOES NOT WORK.

By way of Weblogtoolscollection, whose feed you need to be subscribed to if you run any number of Wordpress powered sites, I learned of MS' Web Platform and its offering of web apps that I assume would run on Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server (otherwise why would they mention these at all?).

I say 'assume' because neither Weblogtoolscollection or Thestandard.com, who both covered this earth shaking piece of news, confirmed whether these'd run on IIS, etc.