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!

FTI: Cost of a Whopper? 10 Facebook Friends

Fast food chain Burger King seems to think people will. In their recently launched Facebook application aptly named “WHOPPER Sacrifice“, you get a free WHOPPER if you delete 10 friends.

As of 11.30am (GMT+8), the counter on the “whopper sacrifice” shows that a whopping (pun intended) 96421 friends have been sacrifice, bringing a total of 9642 whoppers issued. Quite a huge number considering that the people you sacrifice will be published on your news feed. Judging from the number of people sacrificed, it seems that this is not a major concern. Neither are people concerned with what the person being deleted might think.. It is definitely a weird thought that you’re sacrificed for a burger…

Seeing that most Facebook users have quite  a number of people who they don’t know on real life, only their online profiles, I guess sacrificing some may not seem like a very big deal. Well, I guess you can always add those people you deleted again.

So, would you do it?

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…