That’s a good question, and there’s a few answers.<\/p>\n
Doing it for my Brain<\/u><\/p>\n
Having a job where you don’t have to think, it’s easy to get used to not using your brain for anything – learning the basics of web-design and hosting is as good a way of any to keep the grey matter working.<\/p>\n
Doing it for the Kids<\/u><\/p>\n
Somewhere in the distant future there will come a time when our kids won’t be satisfied with Bebo<\/a> and MSN<\/a>. Having a place where they can practice with their own site can only be good for them.<\/p>\n Doing it for the Family<\/u><\/p>\n Most of our friends and family’s\u00a0 have access to the ‘net, so it’s easier and quicker to share photo’s and stories with everyone.<\/p>\n Doing it for Simplicity<\/u><\/p>\n Owning a domain means we can gradually dump all the extra email addresses we’ve accumulated over the years and just use a couple, thanks to the free Google Apps for Domains<\/a> service.<\/p>\n All sounds a bit optimistic to me! We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s a good question, and there’s a few answers. Doing it for my Brain Having a job where you don’t have to think, it’s easy to get used to not using your brain for anything – learning the basics of web-design and hosting is as good a way of any to keep the grey matter … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}