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[2972] Writing interrupted

I have not been blogging, or writing, much in the past few weeks. There are several reasons for this.

I am getting more responsibility at work. On top of that, I am suffering a little bit of writing fatigue after finishing up a book that I have been writing for the past 6 or 7 years (going to print soon!). With routine broken, getting it back up is not easy. But I would be lying if all the reasons behind such laziness are all professional-sounding. I bought Football Manager 2023 in late February, and it is a time-suck.

But this blog begged me for attention yesterday, after a WordPress update broke something that forced me to manually go through my database and repair it for 1-2 hours. Exhausting but it also proves to me that I still care about this blog, even if people have moved on.

So, it needs an update!. Let me post something to celebrate (belatedly) the reopening of this part of the world.

Some rights reserved. By Hafiz Noor Shams. Creative Commons.

I visited Phuket and its surroundings a week or two a few months back. This is the small water settlement of Ko Panyi, located on the northern side of Phang Nga Bay. If I remember it correctly, the journey from Phuket takes about two hours by boat.

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[2933] Testing

Please ignore this. This is a test.

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[2420] Did I tell you I love WordPress?

I initially had a webpage on Geocities. I did not update it too often and the content was very basic because it was a hassle to keep changing the page all the time. I was also new to HTML.

Then Blogger came along. Less coding and more writing.

I started to write, or blog, more frequently until my blog was getting too big for the whatever system Blogger was using to become reliable. Posting an entry was an extreme pain.

After thinking long and hard, I migrated to WordPress. Blogger did improve later but the boat has sailed.

I have been on WordPress for roughly five years now and it has been great. Everything is seamless. If there is any problem, I can almost immediately solve it by myself without relying on tech support. Customization is easy and the plugins are rich and awesome. I am in almost complete control of the whole blog, save my dependency on my web host, which I am thinking of changing due to its

The introduction of Widget made my life online far, far more convenient that I care to remember. I no longer have to add code lines, which is always a messy affair for an amateur like me. All I needed to do are upload some files and click enable. The plugin will be online soon after.

And for the past few weeks, the introduction of Jetpack has made it even more convenient.

I am unsure why I love Jetpack so much. I could install the plugins by myself and Jetpack only aggregates those plugins. Furthermore, I already have the plugins that I want. So, big deal.

Yet, it is giving me a lot of satisfaction using WordPress. Right now, I am in the process of deleting redundant plugins that are independent of the ones provided in Jetpack.

Maybe that is it. It makes the whole business cleaner.

And I like clean. And I love WordPress.

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[2399] A-twittering around

Twitter is taking much of my blogging time away. That explains the dearth of posts here.

If you are in the appetite for an angrier, snappier and a snarkier me, follow me on Twitter.

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[2275] Of wider template, with ivy

I said I was working on it. I finally decided to do it. I tweaked the code for this blog to make the template wider to accommodate larger pictures that I post. I originally posted pictures with the width of 500px only , partly because I was being paranoid about people stealing it, about bandwidth and mostly because of the template of this blog. The writing room was only 500px wide.

Not any more.

Also, my new banner is made out of this picture:

This picture in turn was taken during a warm summer day here: