Lately, I've been seeing "having said that, ..." or "that being said, ...", a little much in comments and blog posts. Having said that, I'm trying to avoid it

Lately, I've been seeing "having said that, ..." or "that being said, ...", a little much in comments and blog posts. Having said that, I'm trying to avoid it myself. Just noticed that jackowayed below has a variation of it in his comment.