I love fiddling with options, technicalities and tinkering with things, I’m a Geek after all. When today I read this post from Jamie of 37signals fame, I got struck by the realization I was wasting my time postponing the start of my website just because I wanted to do the things right at the first shot.

I quote:

This email would have been delayed until it was perfect at Crate and Barrel, and I had trouble releasing the design when there was a way to further improve it. After fixing this there would be another thing and then another thing. A 2-day project would drag on for a week of redesign, approval, and development. Instead we deployed what we had because it is better than what we have now. Done. I finally got Real.

• CSS
• Ajax
• RSS
• the name (!!)

all these things interfered with my desire of just writing longer posts than my other tumblelog.

So I decided to take the plunge, create a new tumblr instead of installing Habari and start writing.

Well, Thanks Jamie

Oh, as for Habari, I do love it, the test installation (see? this is me fiddling with things again…) was great and inspiring, but… I did not find a theme that I liked, and the themes list was so hard to navigate trough. I’d resolved to write my own theme and I started to, but you see? another time sink…