Saying goodbye to Tumblr

In my very first post, I lamented the fact that I seemed to be locked into Google's (admittedly very shiny) services—which I then followed up with a list of possible replacements for specific services. I suppose I'd forgotten that it was being locked-in that was the problem, not who I was being locked-in with.

I suppose I rationalized it by thinking that "lock-in" is a rather harsh way of putting things (which it was) since I could always get my data back—except when I can't. The recent extended Tumblr downtime brought the idea home rather forcefully. Sure, I had most of entries backed up, but that was mostly luck.

Anyway, I've relaunched my blog, and its setup is now almost entirely under my control.

I'd like to say thanks to the people who liked my posts enough to either tag it as such, or even reblog one or two of them. I'm keeping my account open, if only to keep on following the interesting folks I found here, but I'll only post on my Ersatz Genius 2.0 (heh) from now on.

(Or, maybe, when I have some free time, I'll write a plugin that will auto-post my blog entries here, too. That should be fun.)