Hello blog! (or: Byebye, self-hosting)

Okay, so if finally decided to go with blogger.com instead of a self-hosted blog. Why? There are several reasons for it. One of the main reasons is that in the past my dedicated server hasn't been as stable as it should have been, because I used it more like a playground instead of a productive system.

Another reason is that I searched a while for a specific blogging solution, that would have been perfect for me. The goals were quiet simple (at least that is what I thought, but appearently I was wrong):

• Be sane!
  Well, that sounds a bit overloaded. But in fact its only a question of an acceptable effort for setting it up and maintaining it. That means a blog software with 1 distinct security issue a week is definitive out of scope.
• Make it possible to post in two languages!
  Hey, whats so problematic about providing a sane way to post in two different languages and use AcceptLang (and an optional LangChooser for people who are not satisfied with the AcceptLang choice?) to negotiate the proper display language? The only solutions were for blosxom (which was out of scope due to different reasons) and for Wordpress, but which needed additional effort (modifying a plugin to add AcceptLang support) and was out of scope because of its security history.
  
• Provide a sane way to add and position images
  
  

Well, I found no solution for this problem and I don't think its a good idea to do it on my own. So now I'm ending up with blogger.com, which is, to be honest, a compromise and nothing more. However the difference is that it is a compromise which does not need much attention or work on my side. So I'm fine with it. For now. If you have a suggestion for me, I'd be happy to hear it.

Update: Thanks for the note, that I started a sentence and missed to end it :-)