You’ll have noticed no new posts for quite a while. This is because I’m busy moving into my new house. So, expect a very quiet few days, at least until I get everything moved, unpacked, and my internet reconnected.

If you visit regularly - it’s nice to delude myself that someone does - you’ll have noticed a few changes on the blog. For starters, my Daily Delicious news postings have been removed from the archives, mainly because it was getting a bit embarrassing to see there were more of those than actual posts. Oh, and the site’s gone through a major overhaul in design to try and make it a bit more user friendly and ridiculously good-looking. If you didn’t notice, you don’t visit often enough.

Finally, I’m going to try and remain a bit more focused and do “stuff” on a more regular basis because my brain is now on a diet to cut out fast-food junk that pollutes the airwaves. By stuff I mean my own interests: comments on film, photography, writing, philosophy, science and technology, politics and sociology etc. You’ll have noticed, for example, a lot more Word of the Day and Quote of the Day posts. These will be regular features as it’s my goal to try learn something new every day and to share it with whoever is interested. Can’t guarranttee that I’ll send ‘em up every day - I do have an annoying thing called work that bugs me a lot, and a wonderful wife who is not annoying but deserves nothing less than all my attention - but I’ll do my best.

Oh, and expect a few new topics, like Photographer Spotlight and Favourite Thinkers. See if you can figure out what they’ll be about.

A new addition to the site: lowfatbrains’ mind, which is basically my own little store that I set up on Amazon using their new aStore feature available for their associates. If you go and have a look, it opens a new window (it seems their iframe code doesn’t fit in nicely with my site; it’s still in beta, so maybe that’ll change in future) and you’ll get a list of my featured books. At the moment they only allow nine books to be displayed, with no ability to add books to categories or sub-categories, so I’ll try and change the featured page on a fairly regular basis.

Just trying out a new Firefox extension I installed called Performancing. It’s pretty impressive as a quick way of posting to your blog via Firefox, allowing you to choose categories to post to, maintain multiple blog accounts, a decent WYSIWYG editor (or source code editor) and a few other nifty features.

And yes, I know my permalinks don’t work. Will try fix that up tomorrow. Hey, of course there are going to be some teething troubles!

At long bloody last I’ve got my blog up and running again. It only took me a year or so to get it done, but here it is. The reason my blog disappeared (not that I expect anyone was reading the last one and is still visiting) was because it got hacked by a bunch of phishers to set up an eBay scam. I like to think someone hacked in because I pissed off someone enough to get them to shut the site down. The truth is probably a lot less glamorous.

So, hey. Good to be back. Another voice to the bewildered horde of bloggers.