Gah. So much wasted energy. «

Perhaps you’ve noticed that my previous content is gone. If you didn’t, no worries, it wasn’t worth reading.

I’ve been struggling with my blog for the last couple months. I’ve wanted to post, but my shitty-themed wordpress laden with useless posts kept even its author away. After some fresh inspiration from a new job (at Monetate) and quitting serious gaming, I’ve finally gotten around to doing something about it.

I wanted to start over (or start, really). I prototyped a design, but I wasn’t sure how I was going to set it up. I considered updating my existing wordpress design, writing my own blog software, hosting on EC2, Rackspace Cloud, or MediaTemple’s (gs). But all this never made much sense. Writing my own blog wasn’t something I was passionate about. I was sick of Wordpress’s constant tugging to update. And paying for blog hosting wasn’t something I needed. I know plenty of awesome people who do host their own blog, and while there are good reasons to do so, I found there to be too much to leverage from managed hosting. At least, for now.

Tumblr

I chose to move to Tumblr for a couple reasons:

1. <!doctype> to </html> customization
2. Clean admin and draft-to-publish workflow
3. Custom domain
4. Additional pages
5. Tumblr core & community (permalinks, short-urls, likes, followers, etc.)

Anyways, I’m happier now that I’m here. Maybe.