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As of today, you can now leave comments with your Facebook or Disqus account. This makes it easier to leave a comment, just a simple click to log in, and type your comment. You can still leave a comment without a Facebook or Disqus account.

Ok, so the default theme for WordPress (kubrick) looks good, and has served well, but it’s time for something new. I have just stumbled upon this one called iNove (English translation). So far I’m liking it, so we’ll see how things go.

So I’ve been having a little play around with Sweetcron earlier today. So far I’m pretty impressed with it, except that I’ll have a bit of work to do in terms of styling, but that’s ok. This is what I have so far. Tell me what you think.

I imported all the content from my previous host, so everything should appear as normal. I’m still using the default theme for now as that is the least of worries for now. Besides, I don’t really mine it. :p

I’m going to be implementing a few new changes around here, the first of which has already been applied. Post that are older the 60 days will have commenting disabled. Who really comments on old posts anyway?? I’ve noticed no one except for spammers, so this will cut that down. I’ve also installed WP Super Cache, but have it running in Half-On mode so mobile users wont be affected.

That is all for now. Other changes will be announced as they are implemented.

Once everything has settled down and things are back to normal, I’m now planing to get back into blogging a bit, so do stay tunned and keep watching this blog.

Ok, so I’ve made the change to my new host. There was a temp page up that some of you may have seen. I’ve installed WordPress, as you can see, so everything should start working fine again.

If anyone has any good ideas for themes, please leave a comment below with your suggestions. I’m thinking of going back to using k2, but I’m starting to get a bit sick of it.

Oh, also let me know if you notice any difference in speed. I’m interested to see now that this is hosted in Melbourne, Australia, rather then in Los Angeles, USA.

Well, that time has come that I’ve decided to look at my current hosting offerings and see if I can beat what I’ve got now, and it seems that I can.

I’m currently using DreamHost for this site, which offers a ridiculous amount of space and bandwidth for US$9.90. Might seem like good value for some folks, but as I’m an Aussie and with the AU$ falling compared to the US$, this amount is going up and up.

As I said before, DreamHost offer a ridiculous amount of space and bandwidth, and looking at my usage shows that I’m only using about 250Mb of space, and about 1Gb of bandwidth, both of which don’t even make 1% of usage.

So I’ve decided to use some local AU based hosting. I can get 2Gb of space and 5Gb of bandwidth for about AU$2/month. Now that’s a huge saving and will be more then I can poke a stick at.

Also, with the savings that I now have, I’ve started using Amazon S3 to store offsite backups of my digital photos, about 10Gb worth, and that works out to be only a few US$’s a month, which I can handle and be at peace of mind knowing that if something bad was to happen to my PC and/or home, they are all safe.

So you can expect to see things change in the coming weeks. One thing that I’m looking forward to is that latency will decrease. AU based hosting is much quicker down here then US hosting. I haven’t yet decided if I will continue blogging, but the increased latency may give me a spark to start it again. WordPress may or may not be installed, but either way, there will be something there providing ways on how you can contact me.

As some of you may know, I’m looking and doing who knows what with this blog. Last night I came across this blog which is more of a lifestream, but incorporates the blog as well. It scrapes your data from other sites like twitter and flickr and posts them to your blog/lifestream. The site is running Sweetcron which is yet to be released.

I’m going to have a look at Sweetcron when it is released, and if I like it and it works for me and this site, I’ll change this site over to it.

Of course, if there is a way of doing this is WordPress, that would be good too.

The whole blogging thing has sorta come to an end for me. I don’t seem to blog much at all anymore. I’m considering removing this blog and maybe putting up a static page with some links to social sites that I use, like Facebook, flickr, twitter, etc.

The other option that I have is to make a static page, and then maybe a small journal. Something like a tumblog.

I haven’t come to a decision yet, and I’m currently 50/50 on these two choices. What are peoples thoughts about doing this? Any other ideas or solutions??

Oh, I’m going to keep this domain as I us it for my primary email, and there are a few email account associated with it.