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I am very content to play and piddle with my wordpress.com blog and don't go too much for all that fancy plug-in stuff.    I'm seeing quite a few blog-buddies 'upgrade';  I'm assuming to wordpress.org?  am I right?  and I'm curious as to why?   I thought the only reason was to include advertising?   I'm wrong, aren't I?

I love the personalities of these bloggers (you know who you are) and I don't mind having to sign in every time I leave a comment.  You are worth it to me.   

I suppose that might beg the question why I don't have auto-form-fillers or some such and the answer to that is 'I don't know.'    I recently changed the security system on my PC and I can't get the form filler to work even though everything tells me it is setup for it.    I have yet to punch numbers on the phone (do we still say 'dial'?) to call support and see what's up but I did notice that this security suite of products is only to be used with Microsoft IE.  

So, that puts off my decision to investigate FireFox.  

Am I in the dark ages?    Do I need to take a class in...   what, exactly?

Then, yesterday, I met a very nice man who requested some PC help through our library's tutoring program.   He wanted an overview of Wordpress which is why they asked if I could help him.  They know I am a bit enthusiastic about all this blogging nonsense so the match was made.

However, he has it all setup with wordpress.org and I haven't a clue how to help him.     He really doesn't want help - he wants to HIRE someone to do it.      Should I have him buy the Wordpress for Dummies book for himself or make him buy it for me?    Would you recommend this book?     I'm afraid he might have to buy me a whole new upgraded all-the-bells-and-whistles latest COMPUTER, too.     Now, that  might make it appealing...