The disadvantage to having data from several different services is that if one service is down, the blog takes an awful long time to load up, if at all. Right now I have blogrolling.com for my blogroll, flickr for images, another server where I host things like resume and other docs, and googles adsense for that small advertisement on top of the sidebar. I have no idea how long this page would take to load on a dial up connection. Who still uses dialup? My folks way back home in Pakistan. Their computer was dead for the past year or so, and they didn't have time to fix it, so they dont know about the blog. Now that the computer is fixed, I'll be telling them, and lets see what they have to say.