I liked the community aspect of LiveJournal, but everybody seems to have moved away. I like the style of Tumblr, but long text posts don’t feel like they belong there. Finally, if I’m serious about maintaining my nerd cred, I ought to be hosting my own weblog.
I plan to categorize posts, so that my comedian friends don’t need to suffer through rants about memory management in Objective-C and my programmer friends don’t need to suffer through ramblings about improv comedy. Instead, suffering will be targeted to your particular demographic.
I expect to spend a lot of time being unhappy with WordPress Themes.
You might want to install the 2.7 beta. It’s got some great extra features and has auto updating… and for the most part is reliably stable.
Your two sentences have not convinced me.