Well, I bought the robertmcintosh.ca domain and moved the blog to hosted blogger rather than self hosted wordpress.
I use wordpress for waterloobikes.ca blog, but overall it's not impressive. They insert ads where Google leaves that up to the blogger. Domain pointing is free at blogger, but paid at Wordpress.
Best news is I've got the domain. It's a huge move for my image as a contractor. No more org tld's and I can even use an email address for free from the registrar.
I think things are moving along...
