I have decided to change the blog’s theme once again. I want to go with something more professional. I chose BlueBird, because I wanted something less busy, more open and, at the time, I was also high on the Twitter wave.

Lately I have been kind of burned out on Twitter! I am not as excited or obsessed with it, although I do still look forward to connecting with friends and posting random things. I guess everything comes in waves. At least that’s how it is with me. I obsess with something for couple of days to couple of weeks and then I move on.

Anyhow, back to the looks of my blog. I want to have something plain, which will present the content in easy to the eyes fashion. I don’t want to have busy pages, either. I think I will start with trying out few different theme. Currently I am deicing between Mimbo Pro, The Studio and maybe Unbound. I will test their appeal and organization of the content, but I think, at the end, I just might just create my own theme from modifying the classic WordPress them. Just like I did many years ago, when I first started using Wordpress. I would provide some examples, but the Archive.org does not have that many archived copies of my site. Besides, I think this was probably before the total data loss I suffered in July of 2004.

After I have settled on a theme or have created my own, I will reorganize the pages and the content their provide. Then maybe I will finally complete the About page. I am doing this, because I want to make my blog more useful. I want to start posting better articles and attract new and regular visitors. Eventually I would like to also have a forum community.

We will have to see who this will go. I see this as “The Evolution of a personal blog”, the evolution of my blog. Looking through old posts and remembering old designs I can trace the changes in my way of thinking and writing. I am definitely more mature and interested to provided something useful and not just random ramblings. Well … for most part. It IS a journey after all. Correct?!

Progress and development is a must.

I have made advertising on my blog available to anyone interested. To find out your available options go here.

I have decided to add a few new topic categories. They being: Videos, Useful Sites and Today I Learned. I decided to do this, because during my usual vocations I come across a variety of websites, topics and entertainment media. Some of this I think are very much useful, interesting or entertaining, and this is a way to remember them, as well as promote them.

In the Video category I will be posting videos that are funny, interesting, gameplay or show something useful, like do-it-yourself instructions. Useful Sites will be used for website which offer technical information or some web service. And Today I Learned will be used for random things, not necessarily related to the Internet.

Merry Christmas everyone

Due to increasing costs of operation the host, from which I was renting my server, closed its doors yesterday. So because of that I had one week, going back, to find a new host and move my data. Because of the number of sites I am hosting and the comfort of being in control of a server and its resources, and because I like to keep my data close, I decided to move everything to a VPS - a virtual private server, which I rented from the same data center in the CBOT building, where my old host had collocated its servers. It was a fast and affordable solution for the situation.

Because the VPS servers, FDC Servers offers, are simply server shells, I had to spend last 5 days looking through RPM repositories, installing and configuring software. It was a learning experience. I pretty much staid up to 2:30 AM every morning, hurrying to get the darn server up to stat, but I did not mind it. I enjoy working with Linux it provided me with some practice.

I finished my configurations early yesterday morning and began to restore the hosted sites. Now I have to finish uploading the last few files of Titan Fusion and everything will be as before. The only thing that would be left to do is to restore the permissions, where needed, so scripts and web applications can work correctly.

This Planet – Currently in development, this site is dedicated to providing the public with information on agencies and organizations, whose purpose is to inform, preserve and restore planet Earth and its natural life and resources. Visit http://thisplanet.info for more information.

Jutiagroup – work on my brother’s site continues. Work should have been completed a while back, but for the moment it is down to only performing maintenance tasks. The site is dedicated to social events, politics, the stock market and money management. Authors are in need. So if you have a topic you would like to write articles on, even if it is not one of the main ones from above, visit the contact page and express your interest.

Bad SPAM, Bad - this one was spur of the moment. I started it yesterday after I came home and had to deal with the daily doze of SPAM. I wrote a “bit” more about it here - http://badspambad.com.

I am tired of continuously battling SPAM on my websites. I have decided to conduct my own way of combating SPAM. I have decided to reverse the SPAM flow. To do so, I created Bad SPAM, Bad. There I will post any email address that is used in SPAM on my websites.

I wonder how the owners will feel when the SPAM flow is reversed?!

I was able to convince my sweetie to try blogging. She seems pretty excited to have one, so am I. From the looks of it, it appears that she is planing to give some insides to me. It should be very interesting. He-He.

Here is the web address to her section on Titan Fusion: mandy.titanfusion.net