Okay, I Changed My Mind
July 17th, 2005 | Published in site | 41 Comments
Blogging isn’t that scary after all, and BloggerCon has a lot to do with it. Another impulsive decision spectacularly reversed.
Those of you who have compulsively refreshed this site will be relieved to see some semblance of life here, after the suspended page notice over the last couple of days. My hosting account was cancelled again, for the same reason as the last, and I took the opportunity to give myself an excuse to sign up for a TextDrive account. As with buying a Mac, hosting with TextDrive isn’t cheap, but you know you’re paying for the best - and knowing that part of what I’m paying for goes to support an open source project of my choice, makes for good karma. At US$25 a month, I’m not going to be able to easily afford it once the “reserves” run out (money previously donated), though I have some idea on what to do to make this site sustain itself, without having to put on any ads. But I’m going to think about blogging revenue when I’m sipping my Chang beer while on holiday.
Site isn’t perfect yet, I hastily threw it together with Wordpress and yet another Theron Parlin theme. Work is needed on .htaccess and rewrites, post slugs, amongst other things. Migrating to my new server was a royal nightmare as I couldn’t restore directly from my Cpanel backup (since TextDrive uses Webmin), and the old MySQL databases were bloated beyond belief in any case. I had to manually copy and paste the data into a new database just so that I could have my old content back. I did like the previous concept that was Textsoap - unfortunately that one has run into issues (pertaining to a trademark infringement), and I suppose I will work on it further.
That’s all for tonight, folks. By the time you are looking at this the domain name will have propagated to its new nameservers, and I will be in bed reeling from the previous night’s work, eyes blinking to the misery of PhpMyAdmin and SQL dumps even when shut, and almost certainly having to beg the missus for forgiveness for oversleeping despite confidently promising otherwise.. sorry baby! (Note to readers: she wants you to know she played an instrumental role in nagging the blogger back into blogging.)
Some important notes: 1. I still need some time to work on cleaning up the feeds. 2. The comment count appears to be displaying one less comment than it should for each entry. Working on that. 3. Working on restoring my subdomains, i.e. the people I host.
P.S. Please send me your BloggerCon photos - especially those in which I have appeared, of course (Zhiyang, I’m looking at you)!
P.P.S. Damn. I’ve missed being a blogger.
July 17th, 2005 at 7:40 pm (#)
Twas only a matter of time!
July 17th, 2005 at 7:41 pm (#)
welcome back.
what’s going to happen to the entries that were posted every wednesday though?
July 18th, 2005 at 3:43 am (#)
D: I haven’t thought about that. I’ll figure out a way to display those, soon enough.
July 18th, 2005 at 5:08 am (#)
You’re back! sobs with relief and thanks your missus
July 18th, 2005 at 8:36 am (#)
Yes!!! We thank your missus, and we thank Bloggers.SG, and we will make whatever thanksgiving libations are deemed appropriate.
Amen.
July 18th, 2005 at 9:02 am (#)
and i thought you had an aversion to anything with ‘blog’ in its name :p
hope textdrive won’t screw your site over like the previous ones and i’ll send you the photos as soon as i get them.
July 18th, 2005 at 9:53 am (#)
Didn’t quite speak to you that day, but I definitely did beam at you and ogled at your friend. :P
July 18th, 2005 at 10:43 am (#)
I’ve missed you being a blogger too. Heh.
July 18th, 2005 at 11:13 am (#)
Welcome back!
This could be the biggest benefit of BloggerCon (to me).
July 18th, 2005 at 11:44 am (#)
yoohoo… !!!
did not attend the Blogger.SG, missed the chance to meet you in person. :(
PS: you should write a book about your travels.
July 18th, 2005 at 12:08 pm (#)
hey it was cool meeting you and all; yeah. lemme know if that transfer thing works out, yah?
regards,
j.
July 18th, 2005 at 12:23 pm (#)
Yes, I’m glad to see your site up and running again. Welcome back.
July 18th, 2005 at 12:47 pm (#)
Hi,
I was at blogger confer last Sat and heard you at the panel.
For blogging revenue, I suggest writing articles at http://english.ohmynews.com, it’s part of the citizen reporting project. So far, I’m the only citizen reporter from Spore.
You can get paid US$20 per article (or more).
The downside is the bank wire transfer costs, take into account that.
Give it a shot.
July 18th, 2005 at 12:51 pm (#)
Adri’s a hot total babe! When she went up to the table at bloggers con, was thinking to myself, “Hey, who’s this pretty cool looking lady with the sexy voice…”. Just found the blog today. Good writing!
July 18th, 2005 at 1:01 pm (#)
I knew you’ll be back. grinz
July 18th, 2005 at 1:13 pm (#)
Welcome back Adri! You’ve been sorely missed!
Oh, and I can’t find your email add anywhere on your site (maybe I’m just blind), so as for the picture I took with you, if you want it you can grab it off my blog. It was great meeting you!
July 18th, 2005 at 2:11 pm (#)
Gosh. I’m most relieved. I almost had a heart attack when i saw the page suspension notification and had to dedicate an entire post to the loss.
July 18th, 2005 at 2:11 pm (#)
Welcome back! Look forward to more articles from you.
July 18th, 2005 at 2:39 pm (#)
welcome back, Adri
July 18th, 2005 at 4:33 pm (#)
cool, no longer need to access popagandhi using anonymouse; you know the textsoup version was blocked in China, and I was trying to write you an e-mail about that, but it couldn’t delivered either.
July 18th, 2005 at 4:55 pm (#)
One of my favourite bloggers is back.
Remember to thank the missus for us.
July 18th, 2005 at 6:57 pm (#)
Glad you’re back!
July 18th, 2005 at 7:20 pm (#)
yay!!!!
July 18th, 2005 at 8:05 pm (#)
hey hey, i got your SMS. ’twas in the wee hours of the morning wasn’t it?! let me know if you need help with the cost.
July 18th, 2005 at 9:58 pm (#)
yes!! =D
July 18th, 2005 at 11:50 pm (#)
Yay! Welcome back.
July 19th, 2005 at 12:03 am (#)
Welcome back girl :)
July 19th, 2005 at 12:12 am (#)
“Just when I thought I got out, they pull me back in…”
Welcome back!
July 19th, 2005 at 2:37 am (#)
welcome back.
i thoroughly enjoyed your wednesday posts. but i wouldn’t complain bout havin’ more of you to read.
July 19th, 2005 at 3:04 am (#)
hey babe, back already and never tell me. aiyoh. why you like that lah. =)
July 19th, 2005 at 1:11 pm (#)
My favourite SG blogger is back..this calls for a celebration. ;)
July 19th, 2005 at 3:44 pm (#)
finally your site is up! took you long enough! :P
July 19th, 2005 at 3:58 pm (#)
Yeah! You rock, Adrienna! How glad I am to have you back at the more frequent basis!
July 19th, 2005 at 4:03 pm (#)
Welcome back. Gawd I missed your writing.
July 19th, 2005 at 5:12 pm (#)
heys i noe its realli quite dumb that i din noe u onli until i saw u at blog conf when u were one of the speakers for the last session. thx for comin back..haas. =)
July 20th, 2005 at 1:35 am (#)
welcome back :)
been missed.
July 20th, 2005 at 4:03 pm (#)
its good to see you back! i enjoyed reading your blog :)
July 20th, 2005 at 9:37 pm (#)
cool
July 20th, 2005 at 11:18 pm (#)
So glad to have you back :)
July 21st, 2005 at 2:29 am (#)
Glad you’re back… Should have left comments days earlier, when your RSS suddenly went alive. =) Thanks for the advice btw.
August 5th, 2005 at 12:06 am (#)
Welcome back, we missed you!
I was just cleaning out my bookmarks and by chanced clicked on you, and boom, they you are! I’m so happy!