Time for bookofjoe to move to iWeb?

I must confess that TypePad is getting more and more tiresome, what with the now–routine outages and downtime and failures that make bookofjoe seem erratic in terms of when it appears when, in fact, I create and schedule my eight daily posts with religious regularity.

So I was very interested in Walt Mossberg's review, in this past Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, of a new feature in iLife 06, the latest iteration of Apple's software.

It's called iWeb and includes a dedicated suite of blogging tools.

Watch the demo here and see what you think.

Me, I have no problem dropping $79 on it and I'm already a member of .Mac, a prerequisite for using iWeb to its fullest capability.

The trouble, as always, is my stupidity as regards technology.

Sitting here by myself in my TechnoDolt™ tar pit I just know that the first decision point I'd face after putting in the iLife 06 disc in an attempt to install it would crash my frontal lobes.

So I'm gonna pass.

When I get my next Mac, iLife 06 will be already in place so then I can play around with it to my heart's content.

I emailed Phillip Winn, my technical engineer, for his opinion and he replied that iWeb is not right for me.

Phillip is polite: I know he's trying to tell me, without hurting my feelings too much, that I'm not right.

That's OK, Phillip — this doesn't exactly come as news.