So I'm giving posterous a try.

Now the above phrase really is supposed to be the conclusion of the current post.

My previous blog was on Tumblr. I have been satisfied with Tumblr from a writer's point of view (Markdown!) or even a designer's point of view (those themes are really easy to customize), yet it completely fails at actually making its content available to search engines.

Now you see, Tumblr is big. Failing to percolate content through search engines means that whatever bit of information you put in Tumblr instantly accretes into its mass in a trajectory hopelessly leading well beyond its event horizon. Seriously, have you ever ended up on a tumbr page from a search engine?

Tumblr is a creepy, useless black hole.

The content I put online is often some result of research pertaining to some peculiar issue I happened to have to solve out of sheer need. By virtue of nerdiness affliction, I also happen to hate kludges and more often than not will try hard to put together a proper solution, or failing that, a supposedly nice hack. So, having spent a handful of hours sorting through a boatloat of tiny, scattered bits of information and assembling the relevant components into a working solution, I happen to think that it would actually be nice to others to not waste the processing time I just spent swimming through swarms of data carefully filtering the signal out of pure noise.

Having that content not crawlable by a search spider, folks, is the absolute deal breaker.

Now stops the rant.