Archive for the 'Life' Category

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Site redesign

I just redesigned my website! I hope you like the new design. I’m still thinking of ways to give more relevance to my lifestream*, as I rarely blog but post stuff on other sites more often. Meanwhile, if you want to get my lifestream you can follow me on friendfeed or use this RSS feed . If you follow me via this website, check out the lifestream in the sidebar, which is also via friendfeed.

If you have any suggestions of improvement or criticisms, do post them in the comments. Thank you! Enjoy your visit : )

* i.e. stream of all the stuff I post around the web (more info)

New Gallery

As some of you may know, some time ago I did some 3D modelling in my spare time as a hobby. I have decided to create a little gallery with 3 of my favourite images from that time. The gallery is accessible from the main bar (along with some short additional information) but I will inline it in this post as well. Feel free to comment.

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All this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Portugal License.

I got some ‘splainin to do…

Hey everyone!

I’ll finally update you with what the hell is going on with my blog (other than my sloppiness). As you are aware, I had it hosted on 110mb.com, mainly because it was a free php hosting account I had registered a loong time ago… They stopped supplying databases for free and so I looked for some free mysql hosting, and ended up using freemysql.net. It worked fine for a while, until every sort of trouble started happening. freemysql.net lost my database once during whatever maintenance, and I didn’t make any backups, but I was too busy at the moment to do anything else than start over again. So I did start over again… Meanwhile I had decided that I didn’t need a database and started trying to do a static website with comments via disqus. I was testing it at my former subdomain in 110mb.com, in a different directory, so I kept both the blogs running during development. Then before I was finished with it, freemysql.net stopped working again… and to make matters worse, 110mb started an advertisement program in their 404 error pages which led to a naked wrestling website (nwwl.com). Seriously now, wtf?

I decided I had enough, and started arranging the details here at dreamhost and moving stuff around. Meanwhile I temporarily put my beta website, without comments or feeds implemented, on the main folder of my subdomain, and moved the old wordpress into a subdirectory. Now I just discovered that by doing that, any links on the RSS readers of the users of my old feed would just redirect to nwwl. I uploaded a stub index.php to correct that situation (I mean, I’d rather show an error than an embarassing picture).

I am really really really sorry for any inconvenience caused by all this situation, and I hope the few of you subscribers haven’t given up on me yet… If anything, this will serve to show you should never trust ad-supported hosting or free mysql hosting.

In honor of Dreamhost I’ve themed my blog with the Dreamhost inspired theme “A Dream to Host” :)
To better days!