I’m going to focus on the container instead of the content for some time.
After using tumblr for a while I’ve seen its kung fu is strong, and the size of the posts is fine. I use other services for microblogging and if I ever want to write something longer I may use something else, but tumblr handles well enough posts from variable lengths and I want to keep up the pace of one post per week, so I’ll keep them short in general.
There is a fair amount of customization that can be made, that’s what convinced me, so that’s what I’m going to do. However, I won’t allocate more time, so the time allocated for tumblr will be spent on this customization. Everything should be back to normal in 8 weeks.
Now, if I could just write html…