Joel Cunningham shared this informative sushi guide today via Google Reader, I thought I would archive it for posterity.

Boo snow.

A very cool collection of sorting algorithm visualizations from a guy who dislikes animated sorting algorithm visualizations.

I really want a vinyl mural of this guy on my office wall/door.

I’ve started reading The Scar by China Miéville.  I enjoyed Perdido Street Station enough that I thought I would finish out the three Bas-Lag books.  (The Scar is book 2.)

I’ve redirected the hostname for my WordPress blog to tumblr.  For now that means that the content that was previously hosted on the WordPress blog is unavailable online.  (Well, it’s probably available via Google’s cache for a while.)

I hope to migrate the previous content onto here, but it’s going to require a bit of custom porting.  If, by some miraculous fluke, you need access to some of that old content, drop me an email and let me know.

While my blog has had spurts of activity now and again, it’s been more or less stagnant for a long time. I’ve written in the past how important I thought that blogging was. (Long story short, history has shown the extremely high value of letters and diaries but not how to tell in advance if something will be important.)

For lack of time and—most importantly—interest, I haven’t been updating the blog. Recently I’ve put some thought to blogging to try and figure out what changed.  It’s not just a lack of time, because my overall content production has actually increased. But the content isn’t blogging, it’s found on flickr, facebook, twitter, and more. It seems to me that blogging, in the strictest of definitions as it was created—as a web log—has largely lost relevance to me.

For quite some time, I’ve been more than happy with updating twitter and facebook frequently. Now and then I’ll want to say something longer than is appropriate for Twitter, but it generally ends up as a comment on someone else’s twitter update that’s been piped into facebook or it doesn’t get written down at all. That last part is important, because it indicates to me that I’ve been wanting to create some content that is appropriate for blogging, but I just don’t.

It’s the barrier to entry. My WordPress blog is a maintenance chore and a reminder of stale things. Even when it’s a good idea to post something, I don’t just because I don’t feel like touching WordPress.

Enter tumblr.

While long blog posts (like this one) have their occasional eruption, typically my shared content consists of quick quotes, great links, photos funny and interesting, and life updates that can be expressed in 140 characters or less. A “blog” is a production, it’s like having your own newspaper. Keeping a traditional WordPress-style blog spam-free and unexploited is like being a hobby editor and technologist.

This tumblr service provides structure for those sub-blog content pieces while also humoring a longer blog piece like this. It’s a hosted solution, so I don’t need to be a part time comment editor or technologist, full time technologists can worry about that. It seems to me like something that is still relevant where a WordPress blog isn’t.  For the same reasons I use Flickr instead of Gallery2, I’m going to try tumblr instead of WordPress. We’ll see if something comes of it.