Makeshift
I love:
- Tumblr’s interface
- The simplicity of posting
- The idea of stress-free site publishing
- Tumblr’s lack of support for backend development
- and comments
- and post tags
- and self-hosting
- Migraines
- Scary movies (esp. w/ zombies)
So even with it’s flaws, Tumblr still does more good than evil.
I’m going to give this a shot without comments (tried both Haloscan and JS-Kit to no avail) and without interactive post tags - for the time being. I can see usable post tags becoming a tumblr convention first (and I’m prepared - see the makeshift tag cloud above), but there are too many roadblocks for me to have comments right now (unless there is some sort of public outcry and/or suggested medium).
So, I suppose that makes this site relatively makeshift. I can deal with that. Starting over can be nice - you’re reading the blog of a guy who left Canada and moved 2,100 miles out to the desert (and couldn’t be happier).
Last thing - the archives from the previous site are gone - I’ll pick and choose a few of them to repost every now and again, but for the most part this is a nice, fresh, makeshift start.
Enjoy!