Categories fixed

Finally, with the help of my brother, I managed to fix the categories. If you are about to ask what was wrong, I’ll tell you. The nesting was missing. All categories were in the flat list, sorted alphabetically, even though that made a little sense. Now you can everything as I intended iit to be.

I have also opened a number of new categories (such as all those programming languages) and rearranged some old ones (such as Wishlist going under Personal) without announcements. I generally try to keep you informed, but there are often these small things which aren’t worth a post on their own.

3 1/2 hour downtime

My appologies to anyone who tried to reach this site between 12:00 and 15:30 Cyprus time today. There was a power cut in the area, which resulted in both the server and Internet connection to be cut off. The power cut was, of course, shorter than three and a half hours, but I was out of town to notice the disruption.

One day I will get the UPS…

Bloglines went down

Bloglines went down. They had some problems with the database at first. They said that no data was lost, but some people just couldn’t login (like yours truly). They than returned back online. After a few hours they posted another notice saying that they need to replace some hardware which will cause another downtime. It looks like that “another downtime” had started a few minutes ago.

The good news are that Bloglines provides the way of exporting subscriptions into OPML files. The bad thing is that I remembered to do so when they went down. Thus, as you can see, my blogroll is not functional currently.

On long posts

Looking at my recent posts you might be thinking something like “What’s wrong with these guy? These are like paragraphs and paragraphs of text. I can’t even be bothered to read all that crap!”. Well, if you do, I’ll tell you that I am surprised myself.

I tried to analyse this change of my writing habbits and pretty quickly I realised that it was the migration of my blogging software to WordPress that triggered that change.

As you might remember, one of my main dissatisfactions with Nucleus CMS was the editor. WordPress provides an excellent editor, which is fast, comfortable, and easily extendable (quicktags are easy to add and edit).

With editor hussle out of the way, nothing stops me from writing more, and thus I am free at expressing whatever I feel like and freeing my head from thoughts that would stay there for ages. The more I dump, the more space (or rather thinking power) I get. And the more thinking power I get, the more thoughts I get again. As you can see this is the vicious circle, that I can’t break. And even if I could, I woldn’t do so just yet.

So, for all of you out there who like short posts – my temporary appologies. I will try to put some short items here too, but they will be mostly in the Links category. That’s my educated guess. :)

P.S.: 5 paragraphs to say a simple thing… that’s graphomania or some other disorder.