Now you see it, now you don’t!

I moved out of my main site for years (Tripod) yesterday and it is possible that some people got the redirection notice and then today you’ll notice that I am back at Tripod :p Well, that’s called the quick change trick :p I moved over to Jen’s domain since she agreed to give me a sub-domain of my own but she didn’t realize till I’d moved in that my site takes close to 20MB :p She wasn’t too happy with that and bought me my own domain at farook.org. Only problem is that I didn’t want to move to a new domain – the only reason I’d moved in the first place was because I would be hosted by Jen. So I picked up and moved back to Tripod :p Jen is adamant that she’ll even pay for hosting the domain but I really don’t want her to go to all that expense and so am back at my free site plus the mirrored ones by kind courtesy of KuhnDog and Lyon. So that’s the story behind that 🙂

What’s in a name?

Darin suggested that I should have named this site “:p” since I use that a lot <vbg> Actually, that’s kinda appropriate too since I do do that a lot. I scatter emoticons all over my writing quite liberally (sometimes I think I do that a bit more than is called for by “approved” writing styles – but who care’s for other people’s conventions? :p) and it’s mostly because it is hard to convey emotions when you’re writing. I want people to know exactly how I felt when I wrote something and you can be sure that if I put a smiley somewhere that I was smiling as I wrote it. Of course, the only exception is the “:p” because I am not sticking my tongue out when I put it down … but I feel like doing so 🙂 That basically explains my attitude towards most of the world too – I like to stick my tongue out at them and say “nyah, nyah” and just do whatever I want to do and hence the constant usages (or should that be overusage? :p) of the ubiquitious “:p”

Change is a constant …

I’ve been updating the template for the site so that you don’t have to scroll horizontally to read an entry. I hated that bit about the template but it took some reworking to get that the way I wanted it to. It still might not work properly for you and if so, let me know.

I was talking to Jen today and realized that she could post here too since Moveable Type does allow multiple users – so now it’s become *our* blog instead of just mine :p I don’t know how often she’ll be posting here but you can expect several posts a day from me – at least till the novelty wears off <vbg> After that, who knows? I still haven’t had time to look into the Moveable Type, Grey Matter, Blog et al client that I have been talking about but I know it’s possible now since I did have time to look into the MT documentation. So it’s just a matter of time as to when the client arrives …

Solipsistic – what the heck is that? :p

Now I meant to write about this today anyway but then Jen went and asked me about it in a comment – but then again, we are like that in that we think and say the same things a lot of the time … Anyway, before I get distracted, back to what I wanted to say about the name of the site … The name has to do with my weird crazy ideas about reality – I sometimes wonder if the world around me is an illusion that I’ve dremt up and I am the only real person and that’s where the name comes from since Solipsism is (according to the dictionary)

1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

Anyway, that explains the Solipsistic part (but we’ll probably go into my idea and theories about reality more some other time :p) and the Meanderings is just because I ramble on and on about so many things …

So it begins …

Well … the window into my soul is now open :p I made an entry today in my development blog about how I was writing more and more about personal stuff and that I probably should stop doing that – or at least parcel out the personal stuff to a different journal and the general user concensus seemed to be that I should start a second journal. With me, to think is to act (yeah, that’s almost like not looking before you leap <vbg>) and so I decided to come in to work, download Moveable Type and install it and so started this new blog …

Those of you who know me know that I develop Blog, an application to make web logging easier, and that I maintain all my other blogs using Blog. So why am I using Moveable Type for this blog? Two reasons: a) check out the competition and find new features to implement in Blog b) have always on access to this blog so that I can rant any time, anywhere :p Yes, Blog has a feature where you can e-mail in entries and have it automatically published but the situation in Sri Lanka (where I am) where the power goes off at any time and your computer can easily get damaged if you leave it on all the time, makes that a bit difficult. So we go with this and see how it turns out ..