I have tried and played around with my WordPress blog for the past few days. I have successfully moved over my posts here to my domain name and web host. I also did a successful backup of the database and tables of this blog (thanks to the support pages of WordPress and Google). With a self hosted wordpress blog, I am able to customize any theme as well as play around with nifty plugins for this blog.
Go here to check out what I have done so far. Eventually, I will use that as my primary blog site and just leave this wordpress blog dormant for a while..at least while my hosting package is still active 
