Gradual Quietness

Considering that this blog is the main function of this domain and WordPress can be easily customized to be a portal, I decided to change the blog address to http://gqshen.com permanently. It’s implemented by referring to this document.

The main drawback is the old permalinks from bookmarks or search engine cache, i.e. those led by http://gqshen.com/blog, will not work. Instead, visitors will get to the ugly 404 page, though I have put a note in it.

UPDATE: Just installed the Redirection plugin at Urban Giraffe and it solves the URL problem almost perfectly.

Today is 06/06/06. Long time no update to the blog. Recently I am very busy on the project, house work, etc.

Just installed Gallery2 and PG theme, looks good for me. Now I can arrange my old photos into that gallery. But the speed is still unsatisfactory, I don’t know if it’s caused by extra server load due to database usage. I am still playing around with it.

Finally I completed the transfer of my two domains from Yahoo! domains (reseller of MelbourneIT) to GoDaddy. I initiated the transfer on Feb 26 and the transfer was completed on Mar 11. Basically I followed this post. The reason it took so long time is that Yahoo! domains customer service is terrible. In the entire procedure I contact three customer service representatives and the first two just don’t know what’s going on or lied to me they have done that but in fact nothing was done. It’s a joke. I would seriously suggest never go with Yahoo! domains for any domain registration. It’s cheap but it’s troublesome when you want to transfer.

Happy New Year! My blog is now running on gqshen.com, my personal domain name. The subdomain for this blog is blog.gqshen.com.

UPDATE: Because WordPress is not so friendly with subdomain, I am going to keep the URL of the blog as gqshen.com/blog, however blog.gqshen.com will still work, i.e., take you to my blog and all links leading by blog.gqshen.com will work well too.

This site is proving a free service to send your blog to the outer space so that maybe your blog can be captured by other possible lifes in the outer space. An interesting idea! And it’s free. I am thinking if there are outer space lifes and they are able to understand our languages, they could have studied us very extensively and deeply. Maybe they are just staring at us, but we cannot see them.