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Rebuilding My Site From Scratch

The last time I updated this site (as in the theme and the technology behind it) was way back in June 2006 with Version 3.0.

Things have changed a lot since then, and my skills have obviously improved a lot since then. I’m not those people that change themes often and leave them pretty much default, I like to build things from scratch and get things exactly how I want them before I move forwards. I’m rather obsessive when it comes to such things.

I cut my teeth with the whole thing back in April last year when I moved Darknet over to Linode on a custom setup.

I’ve also learnt a few more things since then, I’ve been looking around at the various hosting options recently, but the one that caught my eye was https://www.oneasiahost.com/ as they have VPS hosting running on SSD drives starting at only $12USD per quarter!

So I’ve started rebuilding this site over there, it’s lightning fast, so fast it makes my eyes bleed! There’s a LOT of stuff to move across (the munin setup, my private wiki and this hosting accounts holds about 8 domains right now.

I’ve build everything from scratch though with nginx/php-fpm/MySQL/APC/W3 Total Cache and lot’s of magic shell scripts.

I’ve also rebuilt the WordPress part from scratch (ditched all the plugins, emptied out most of the MySQL tables, cleaned up a lot etc) – and a whole new theme. It was rather unstable and well Apache just sucks doesn’t it.

I decided to build fresh using a Framework as I spent DAYS looking for a nice premium theme (Checked all the usual suspects, Elegant Themes, Woothemes, Theme Forest, Headlines etc etc) – but almost everything is a magazine theme – I just want something that looks like a blog.

In the end I went with Woothemes Canvas as I’m pretty familiar with Woothemes (done most client projects using that) and it’s a very powerful, flexible flamework to build a blog on. It provides a lot of functionality which I previously need plugins to achieve.

Woothemes Canvas

Once I’ve carried out my final testing and the DNS changes have propagated the new site should be live within the next few days.

On another note, do you remember the video in my previous post about the mysterious light? Well there’s another follow up report here:

Interesting eh?

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Happy Chinese New Year 2013!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Hope you’re having plenty of food, biscuits, awesome dinners, gambling and beer/whisky/whatever else floats your boat.

I know I am 🙂

Happy CNY 2013

BTW check out this video of a strange incident on a highway in Germany, CCTV Footage shows a cargo truck being lifted off the highway by a strange light.

Pretty weird eh? Seems like the cargo went missing too, I wonder what was inside the truck?

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Best Animated GIF In The World EVAR

Just because…

Best Gif EVAR

Let it load, and be mind-fucked.

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My Acting Debut In a Moldovan Music Video For Carla’s Dreams P.O.H.U.I

So between Christmas and New Year, I did a bit of video shooting one Sunday afternoon. It was fun, had to be all serious and shit – I got hooked up through my colleague and almost everyone in the video is a colleague of mine.

Right now it has about 38,000 views on Youtube and it’s been TV in Moldova. Here are the lyrics literally translated to English:

It’s cold again and it’s depressing again
It’s the end of the month again and you have no money
But you don’t give a fuck

About the world (that is)
Stressed from news and break ups in tv shows
From whores and gays and naked girls on www pages
U Don’t really give a fuck
About promotions in a boutique store that sells carpets

Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like someone to feel what you feel

Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like for somebody to be next you now

There’s some soup and sour cream back home
The bill for the electricity came at the wrong time
You switch on the TV just to get a background sound of
Three smart asses are discussing about the scandal (on the TV)
But you don’t give a fuck

You go outside
And because it’s cold you light you’re cigarette before exiting the apartment block
You put your headphones on and think whom you would like to see in the evening

Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like someone to feel what you feel
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like for some body to be next you now

And there are moments
And even days
When you drink (Alcohol) even if you take your pills (medicine)
Days when the chocolate ruins your diet
When at 12 at night you like to drink tea and eat “meatballs”

When you want to sleep until 9am on Mondays and Tuesdays
When you‘re shoes are dirty even though it’s not raining outside anymore
There are these kinds of days
When you don’t give a fuck

Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like for some body to be next you now
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
With your headphones plugged in, you walk alone on the street
Dum-dum-dum, durum-du-dum-dum
And you would like for some body to be next you now

I play the father of the main protaganist, angry about eating only potatoes again (some kind of political commentary about how things are in Moldova right now).

Let me know what you think of my wifebeater 😀

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