The ever obser­vant reader surely has noticed a few changes in this blog’s appear­ance. Indeed, I’ve been busy chang­ing a few things after upgrad­ing to Word­Press 2.3.3 (thanks, David). First, I’ve reduced the num­ber of cat­e­gories and I have added tags to every post. This will prove very use­ful once the tag cloud goes online. Sec­ond, I’ve changed the design in both big and small ways. Obvi­ously, the side­bar will now stick to the right side with­out you being able to change it with the press of a but­ton. Then there are a few small changes here and there which I think aren’t worth the effort of post­ing a detailed descrip­tion. Last but not least, this blog now always redi­rects to http://www.brainassassin.com/, for instance, if you type brainassassin.com in your URL bar. This is to stop canon­i­cal­iza­tion.

That’s it for now. Through­out the days and quite pos­si­bly weeks ahead I’m going to change a few more things and do some fine-tuning. Com­ing up next will be a few minor mod­i­fi­ca­tions of my style sheet. I don’t really know what else is going to change so I can’t say. In any event, I’m try­ing to make this blog bet­ter than ever. If you have some sug­ges­tions don’t hes­i­tate and leave a comment.

Yes, I do. First, I promised to update my blog more reg­u­larly, almost on a daily basis, and then I fail to deliver. It’s not my fault, really. My new router – a Linksys WRT350N – almost made me go berserk. It just stopped work­ing after a few days of reli­able oper­a­tion. Noth­ing I did made my wire­less net­work work­ing again. After a hefty 30 min­utes call with a guy from the sup­port line it still didn’t work. They sent me a new firmware (v2.00.13(04)) and … still noth­ing. Hell, I down­loaded and installed the newest dri­ver for the NIC and … still noth­ing. I tried to install only the dri­ver … noth­ing. More out of fancy than rea­son­ing I installed the newest ver­sion of the Linksys Mon­i­tor­ing Tool and … noth­ing. Of course, some­how it didn’t install the nec­es­sary ser­vice. After fix­ing that … it worked! Even faster than before. Let’s hope it stays that way.

As far as my work is con­cerned: Last week we had to move our offices from one wing to the other, with only two days warn­ing. The move worked bet­ter than I antic­i­pated but there’s still some work to do. And then, there’s this blog I should work on (for instance, as Evil Spock sug­gested, there’s still no link sec­tion) before start­ing to blog for real. Well, I omit­ted my pri­vate life in which I was try­ing to buy and set up a HDD-Recorder for my girl­friend which turned out to be a rather nasty task. They sold us a device that doesn’t sup­port EPG although they told us so. Tomor­row we will hope­fully fin­ish this unpleas­ant busi­ness so that I can sleep well again.

What’s the mean­ing of this? Well, if every­thing goes accord­ing to the plan, this site should see some improve­ments next week and I will be able to keep my promise. Sadly, over the last three weeks noth­ing seemed to respect the fact that I laid out a plan …

Yee­haa! If you’re read­ing this you made it to my new blog. I tried to import the older posts from Blog­ger but one can only do so much in a given amount of time. There’s work to be done over the next few days so don’t expect every­thing to work per­fectly yet. The design isn’t quite final, I’d say, and I’m going to get a new domain as soon as I’ve made up my mind about it. Heck, even I have to impose an order on the issues at hand fight­ing for my attention.

Apart from a new, more pow­er­ful blog­ging sys­tem, a more appeal­ing design, and a soon-to-come own domain, what do I have in store for you? Truth is, I don’t know. More fre­quent updates, I seri­ously hope. More diverse top­ics (I still won’t get into pol­i­tics, though). More pic­tures? Not likely. More exper­i­ment­ing with styles, designs and related stuff? Pos­si­ble. That’s not too bleak a future, I’d say. Any­way, stay tuned and drop by now and then to look at the progress I’ve made.

Coin­ci­den­tally, I stum­bled over an inter­est­ing blog using the infa­mous ‘Next Blog’ but­ton. It’s worth not­ing that there are some ass­holes at work putting redi­rects to this site on the auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ated blogs. Of course, the already entered key­word is Via­gra. Hell, is there noth­ing the peo­ple at blogger.com can do? At least make it impos­si­ble to cre­ate blogs with the use of programs.

Any­way, I came along this blog where a nice enough look­ing woman asserts some­thing like “If you wanna be a suc­cess­ful blog­ger, you’d bet­ter be sexy. If you can’t post a sexy pic­ture of your­self you should fall back on a cer­tain level of irony or invent new words.”. Well, hm. Now I’m curi­ous. What is the use of blog­ging? Is there a truth hid­den away some­where? Didn’t I real­ize it’s all about bitchin’ around and attract­ing scores of readers?

I couldn’t care less. I’m exert­ing my right of free­dom of expres­sion and I’m doing it to get rid of all these thoughts in my head. It’s like a vent, if you wanna have it so. I’m inter­ested in other people’s opin­ions, that’s true. The more the bet­ter but that doesn’t mean that I’ve to change my ways. That would defeat the very pur­pose of this blog and I’d become a pet of others.

Yes­ter­day, I updated my blog and went beta. Today, I changed some details to fit into the greater pic­ture. I’m quite sat­is­fied with its new look but there are still some parts I’m not yet done with. How­ever, I don’t wanna bother right now.

Tomor­row I’ll visit my par­ents who’re liv­ing in a small vil­lage roughly 310 miles from my loca­tion. I haven’t seem ‘em for a while, almost half a year. How could I for­get – my uncle’s birth­day is to cel­e­brate so I hope it turns out to be a pleas­ant week­end after all. So long, guys.