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As you know, I'm in full favor of HTML5. I like Blogger - it's easier to navigate than Wordpress, which is all I care. Wordpress has a better comments system as of now. Besides that, those who argue for its advantages over Blogger always fail to point out that you need (oft paid) hosting space to reap the said advantages. I am also more concerned about how fast a site loads on a 56K modem than search engine optimization. This, partially, also means that I like my source code to be as short as I can make it; and squeeze all of my CSS/javascript into the same document. The one thing I've not got around doing is to spend time getting rid of the clunky markup that Blogger also forces upon your template whether you like it or not, so long as you're using their layout designer. To get around this, you have to revert to 'classic view', where you build your template entirely up from scratch. Even if you are good with your web design, fetching out how to fetch your posts, comments and other data is a pain in the ass.

To put it simply, I'll be switching over to HTML5, with a change of domain name. I will still use Blogger - because it's free, and easy. So, I won't be updating this blog for some time, because there's some experimenting to do, and designing websites is not my thing.

Lastly, I just want to add a word about another controversy. Why buy a tablet when you can buy ANY laptop? I'd rather have a Lemote Yeeloong than an iPad. Some people have suggested to me that tablets are going to usurp the place of the traditional laptop. Quite the contrary, tablets are actually dying out despite an increase in absolute volume of sales (wrong data to interpret). Comparatively, laptop sales still take a huge market share of total PC sales - one which is expected to exceed that of desktops early this decade. Most of all, laptop sales are growing faster than tablet sales ever since the release of the iPad - and this gap is projected to grow even larger.