My previous blog system, chyrp, was causing me a headache. I set it up over a year ago, and while I really liked the concept, it was never stable enough to rely on.

I decided to move my blog to tumblr.com. It’s a hosted microblog, that you can use and customize for free, and even lets you use your own domain without having to pay extra. This made sense as well because of the fact that chyrp was essentially a tumblr clone that you can host yourself. Its also got a well built iphone app which is handing for blogging on the go.

The whole move was very simple and quick, accept for tedious process of looking through their myriad of themes to choose from. I settled on something light and simple.

The other trick was getting comments to work, as they’re not a included in the tumblr package. This turned out to have a simply solution by using disqus.com. I wasn’t aware of this pretty cool site until now. I could see myself using it in future websites.