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Changing hosts

Jory — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:06:03 +0000

While I am perfectly happy with my current host, A Small Orange, I have decided to switch to a local host ran by a friend of mine called Huizinga Hosting & Webdesign (If you’re Dutch, reading this and looking for hosting: consider this company. Reasonable rates by any standards with great uptime, low loads and a phonenumber that is awnsered by somebody who actually knows what he’s doing, not some €5 an hour muppet who doesn’t know much more then how to pickup the phone and then get you to hang up asap. )

I make a backup of my cPanel user account at ASO a few days ago and, with the help of Bas, the previously mentioned friend, converted it into Direct Admin format and “restored” the account. After the almost flawless conversion (it lost my email forwarders) I changed the MX records at ASO and have been sending and receiving emails using my new host’s server ever since.

After a bit of checking, it seems my website got converted perfectly as well. (Heck, wordpress even remembers I am logged in.)

A registar transfer request was filed for my domain name and it should begin the 17th. (Bleh, first you have to ask your host for some code, then you have to click some link in an email to say you want to move, then you have to not click a link in another email and wait for that to expire.) So, starting the 17th~18th, everybody should be getting my website as it is served by my new host. Not that you’ll notice much, as it will look exactly the same.

Anybody still reading is probally wondering by now what the point of this entry is. Its OK if you can’t figure it out, because I don’t really know what the point of it is, either. I’m gonna hit “publish” regardless, though.

New theme: Big Blue 0.1

Jory — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:40:16 +0000

As you can see, I’m using a new theme. It is Big Blue 0.1. I was kinda getting tired of the previous theme and still suck at making my own, so giving the WP Theme Viewer a try was my best (read: easiest) option. I’ll probally try to tweak it a little, as right now, about 40% of my screen isn’t being used. Chances of increasing the width being an improvement are only so so, but thats what the undo button is for.

Oh, and those wondering whats up with changing the theme of an unused blog: I do plan to blog more. I’m just rather busy doing all sorts of things, none of which are blog worthy. :/

Ooh, bloo

Jory — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:23:06 +0000

As of last sunday, I’m one of the blue guys over at InvisionFree Support. Cool, huh.

Also, this place needs to be updated more.

New theme

Jory — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:12:48 +0000

As you can see, I’m now using Brady Vercher’s Morning Sunshine theme. I renamed the flower image, as I didn’t really like that (might replace it with something at some point) but other that that, I love it. Much more cheerfull that the last theme I used, which matches how I felt back then and how I do now.

I do think I’m going to try and make it a bit wider though.. screw any 800×600 people who happen to come around.