So, here we are again, with Yet Another “Back Again” Post – a kind of post that seems to be taking up a little too much space on this site. Anyhow, my dad bought himself a new box to function as server, which is great, because the old one was getting a bit slow. I hope I succeeded in migrating/restoring everything properly, if not, please let me know.

I finally got the stuff moved to another and better web server (very kindly provided by my dad) so hopefully response times will be quite a bit lower than before. I must say, WordPress requiring more than what the old server was capable of delivering was somewhat of a disappointment, but hell, one’s got to get with the times. Standardization over bastardization, glossy gradients over semi-transparency and squircle is the new rounded rectangle!

All this server-raum means a couple of things besides response times. First of all, there may be problems that I haven’t discovered, so let me know if you encounter some. Second, in my experience webmail, ViewVC and stuff has gotten a lot more responsive to the point of actually being usable, so to those affected by that, do enjoy!

Ever since the move to WordPress, the server has been whining — and not in the silent, emo kind of way. No, it seems that WP is just too much of a strain on it. Suddenly I’m getting all kinds of problems, like hard disc problems and too little RAM and such… Neither were there before and now I’m looking into moving all web content to another server (kindly provided by my dad). Hopefully that’ll allow the old one to keep its job as mail server and stuff.

So, this is the an attempt to enter the world of so called weblogging.

I think it is a well known fact of journalism not to write about thing that are not interesting, or non-news. Kind of like how Harald Bohr though of the wastebasket as being one of the most important tools for a mathematician: to discard the bad ideas one got on the sofa (one other important tool to spawn ideas). However, I think it is a bad idea to discard (all) bad ideas. It would make life easier (in the math world especially) if bad ideas was documented as tried, “don’t go there, you can’t prove that connection between those objects” ideas.

Definitions of the words used here aside — and self-reflexions too — , where I’m heading with this rambling is that I will not, in this post, copy madsens first post from a few years back and not rant about what i think of all that web2.0 bollo^H^H^H^H^Hstuff either. Instead I’m looking forward to share lots of bad ideas — most likely a combination of electronics, bicycles and computer music software — with the nothingness that fills the cyber-net. I shall of cause be pleased by receiving any PONG to my PING’s — it’s not that.

Big thanks to madsen to interface me with the $WORLD.

Obviously things have happened to this site. Let me just mention the most important here — the rest you can figure out for yourselves.

First of all, there’s a new kid on the blog. Allow me to introduce Steffen (his profile will return 404 until he publishes something), whom many of you already know. I’ve been hoping to have him join this blog for a long time now, but my old blogging software wasn’t rigged for it. I’ve finally gotten over myself and installed a standard platform, which I’ll get into in a second, but first: Welcome to the blog Steffen, I hope you’ll like it here.

Now, this new standard platform I mentioned, is (as you may have guessed) WordPress. At first I was a bit hesitant to move to such a platform, but with the ability to easily write plugins, widgets, modify templates and stuff, there’s really no reason not to. Setting up WP was a breeze and the migration from my old system to the new was a matter of 2 really simple PHP scripts — one for converting the old entries and one for the comments. A million thumbs up to the WP developers for making something so accessible, simple and easy.

Apart from a new blogger and a new platform, other things have changed a bit around here. When migrating to WP, there were some decisions to be made. One of those were whether or not to move stuff like phpCF and DynDNSupdate to the new site and I ended up deciding that DynDNSupdate wasn’t worth moving, since I haven’t coded on it for years (and I don’t intend to ever again) and it didn’t appear to be all that popular anyways. So DynDNSupdate is gone. phpCF survived though, mainly because I still code on it every now and then (and I have some huge improvements planned) and because it actually has a future (where DynDNSupdate only had a past — not even a present).

Now, no migration of this sort is without problems and I’ve tried my best to make sure that no old links are broken and stuff, but should you encounter any problems, let me know.

On a side note, the site isn’t the only thing that has had an overhaul (1 and 2).