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Okay, I’ve moved to Spaceports. Blogger itself is having some network trouble, but barring that, my revised web-presence seems to be falling together quite nicely. My old Geocities space will become A Brief History of Brownpau, a site archive for my old web-work, and I’ll remove think! from Simplesight with the next revision.
Now I’ll see about adding a few optional features to the blog template. And I’ll need to learn some CGI so I can put a little counter in. This is fun.
Fellow Geocities-based Bloggers, here’s the fix for your FTP woes: Simply check the “No File Rename” option in your blog settings. You’ll be able to upload without a hitch. However, there’s a slightly higher risk that the transfer will abort mid-upload and mess up the actual blog file. It works this way:
Normally, Blogger first uploads your blog as [ID#].html, then renames it on the server to whatever your blog filename is. That way, if the file gets corrupted while uploading, your actual blog file stays undamaged. With the option to turn off file-renaming, Blogger will FTP it straight to the blog filename. I think the risk is reasonably low if your network connection is clear.
But I’m still fishing around for a better host. Maybe something ad-free, with server-side includes, lots of bandwidth, and free domain hosting.
Oh, great. Now GeoCities is causing problems with Blogger. Now I’m definitely moving. I shall disappear for a few weeks. And this page will disappear soon, too. Many things shall change.
Argh. Stupid of me. GeoCities doesn’t support SSI. I’m going to have to move this page elsewhere again. Well, I’ll make a design for this location just for now, but in a few weeks — or maybe months — it’s moving. My vision for this personal page seriously needs some INCLUDE tags if it’s going to have the scatterbrained variety I want it to have. Maybe back to Hypermart? We’ll see.
I still want to do something with this webspace, though. I have an idea: a site archive. “A Brief History of Brownpau,” maybe?
I am removing ( think ) occipital drippings from SimpleSight. While the concept of a regularly updated design “playground” sounds fun, I have too much work and too many online projects to maintain such a feature. As you can see, all that I’ve managed to put up is the blog, and nothing else.
I do so enjoy the blogger concept, though, so no worries about no longer being able to peek into my life; this blog is moving to my new personal page. See you there!
I won’t be blogging for a while. My computer’s fine now, but I shall be gone for a time, as I redesign and relocate this page. Goodbye for now, fellow bloggers. Worry yourselves not. I will be back in a few weeks’ time with a new concept and realization of my online presence.
Farewell for now.
Ah, there we go. After struggling with hardware incompatibilities which prevented me installing Win2000 on this machine, I simply decided to go back to Win98. Lots to do, lots to do.
I’m thinking of transferring this blog to my upcoming personal page in Geocities and just dropping the “Think” section from Simplesight completely; maybe leave Simplesight more static so I can focus on other web projects. There’s a lot happening. I just purchased the domain pula.ph, and I’m looking for a suitable web host for the new FB4F page.
At the same time, I want to put up a less stiff personal page for myself, because now that I’m securely and stably employed, there’s less need to “market” my skills and talents. Now I can change the look and feel of my personal “brand” to something … more bloggable, maybe?
There was a nationwide power blackout this morning, so we just sat in the office fanning ourselves wondering when the power would come back. Tiff and I had pasta and flambeed crepes for lunch, and when I got back to the office, it was back to fanning ourselves and wondering when the power would come back. Well, obviously, the power just came back. Yippee.
FB4F made it to the Philippine Web Awards’ semi-finalists! in the Cause-Oriented and Education categories! That makes me happy. = )