December, 2005

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Dec 05

Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone! I hope 2006 brings the best for everyone (and best out of everyone ;) ) and their loved ones.

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Dec 05

Design Change

I forgot to mention (you must have noticed though) that I changed my wordpress template to K2.

This is a temporary change actually. I have more ideas about the site design. I wanted to have a more professional website besides my blog which will feature my research projects, publications, etc. for some time now. I don’t think I will have the time to do that myself. I am on the look out for a website design that I could use. I honestly don’t know when this will happen though.

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23
Dec 05

Host Change

I have completed one year at Globat hosting and decided not to continue with them. I can’t say I was completely unhappy but I didn’t want to stay another year for a premium price.

I have now moved my domain and blog to Dreamhost. I had signed up with them couple months back when there was a good deal and felt confident to move my domain there. The move was perfectly smooth and my blog was up and running in no time. So far, I am very happy with Dreamhost. Their panel is not the best looking but is usable and fast responding. I feel like the blog’s loading time is much faster now.

dreamhost, globat
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Dec 05

Long Time, No Post

It has been too long that I have not written anything. One reason is that I was very busy. The other reason is that I have not felt like writing anything. This is partly to do with the change in my feed reading habits. I have not been reading my feeds for a long time now. I am mostly checking memeorandum for news but I am starting to feel like it used to be more useful to me. My reading off memeorandum also declined lately. My other source of news has been Digg but I have also started to question the quality of the stuff posted there as well. I think the change in my feed reading habits effected my blog posting habits. I am hoping to get back on posting here.

In all that time that I was not posting anything, a lot was happening. My research work is progressing nicely lately. I have also been traveling a bit. I have been to Chicago for a research meeting in mid November and we took that opportunity to stay couple more days to enjoy the “windy city”. Two weeks ago, I went to Geneva, Switzerland to visit CERN for 4 days for another research meeting. I did not have time to wander around the city but the meetings were very productive.

In other news, I have now about three months to write up my area paper. My research problem is clearer now but there are of course some vague points which I will need to clarify. As you can imagine, I still have lots of reading and researching to do, I am currently busy working on a workshop paper due on January 5th. I still have a lot of working to do on that paper.