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NTR: I’ve Moved My Blog
WordPress.com has served me well over the past year. I’ve received much more readers than I did with my old blogger blog. Now with the Chinese New Year, and with my 10000th visitor/hit, its time for a new start again. I’ve moved on to my own domain: fusedthought.com
I’ll be leaving the blog posts here untouched as I don’t want to spoil the permanent links. However, I did move the essays over to the new blog. I’ve linked each essay here to its respective new URLs. I would have loved to do a redirect, making it easier for readers, but that’s not possible here.
Please update your bookmarks as well as the RSS / Feed subscriptions in Google Reader or other RSS readers with the new RSS listed below.
New Blog: http://fusedthought.com/en/blog
New RSS / Feed: http://feedproxy.google.com/FusedthoughtStudio
NTR: Buying a Domain
Buying a domain entails more work than it seems.
I bought “fusedthought.com” in the morning, and, after half a days work, I finally manage to get my domain up and running..
Here’s a rundown:
- The buying part was easy. It’s just a matter of giving your payment details and choosing your domain.
- Waiting for domain propagation was agonizing… A little waste of time. Thankfully, I still had my site to do..
- The DNS setting was painful. My registrar limits the number of records. So I had to find another free DNS service to use with less restrictions. After 3 switches, it was up.
- It was quite a breeze to set up Google Apps for Domains. Now my email is contact[at]fusedthought.com
I’ll be moving all the essays and portfolio over once its done. My blog will be moving there also…
*shudders at the thought of all the permanent link redirection and updates…*
For now, back to work on my site…
Yay!
Thoughts: The New Year (2009)
It is 5 days after the New Year and 2009 have descended upon us…. Most school going students would have gone back behind the gates, while college students will be doing so soon.
For me, the past year has been a slightly monotonous one, with certain blips in both directions to the otherwise straight line on the monitor. With conscription being my full time job now, I don’t really have much exciting things to share about or am allowed to share about as compared when I was in school or work… This is probably why I missed school so much.
But I do have to give thanks for all the eventful times I have with my bro and the clique… Thank you all for having me. 
I wanted to put a collage here but I don’t seem to have enough photos… Still scouting around my archives…
On the side note, as I hit the “big” 2s in this coming birthday, I think I’ll get myself a domain name as a present to myself….
Anyway, here’s wishing everyone out there a Good Year ahead!!! Cheers.
Thoughts: A little miffed
As of now, I am officially miffed. My Internet Security software is going to expire soon and I can’t seem to activate the new subscription.
As these companies protect their interest more, they seem to complicate the registration issues. Currently trying to find a free solution, but these free solutions seem to fall short in certain ways… Probably I can’t expect much, but for someone going to spend online for a while, a review that says the firewall lets in browser based attacks isn’t very assuring…
I will probably post my final choice sometime, but need to do serious consideration now…
I.N: A rating based on age
According to BBC News, UK was considering giving websites ratings as what countries would do to movies. It is to ensure that Children would be protected from content that is deemed undesirable for them. In the report, UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said that “clearer signposting” is required for the “confusing (online) world”.
The move is definitely a pertinent one. Many could see it happening in the near future. In fact, I think no one expects the internet content to go relatively unregulated for long. In fact, I am sure that many other countries are considering the same kind of measures. The only limiting factor is the implementation and its reception.
I really wonder how effective such a implementation would be. The most a site can do would be to display the rating prominently on their sites. After that, whether or not the person acknowledges the rating is a whole different matter. In fact, there may be reverse psychology invovled (as in movie ratings), where the young, seeing a rating which advices them not to enter would be more likely to enter the website.
Furthermore, it is hard for a single country to get jurisdiction on any website that is hosted in servers out of its own soil… A solution to that would be to implement a ISP level proxy filtering for sites that are not conforming to their rating systems or modify the websites by adding the ratings before serving up the pages. I am sure many would provide a leeway for this without protesting or using the old “deprivation of human choice/rights” argument against this…
I think ultimately, the best move would be develop something like a plug-in for web browsers, leaving the choice of whether to be filtered to the end users.
Merry Christmas 2008
To everyone out there, today is the day for festivities and celebrations!
A Very Merry and Joyous Christmas to all
God bless you’all. =)
Cheers!
