Expanding my book collection

Posted on Wednesday, 12th of November, 2008 by Jory

I’m not sure if you can call it a collection, really, as it only consists of the seven Harry Potter books, Robert Jordan his Wheel of Time (including New Spring, but not The World of..) and The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Which is a collection of all five parts of the trilogy, plus Youngh Zaphod Plays it Safe).

The holidays are coming up, which means I need to think of stuff I want. The list of reasonably prised things gets shorter and shorter every year, and the only thing I can think of now is to just ask for some nice books. Easy, right, just ask for books. But I don’t want books, I want good books.

So, what is a good book. Well, if you look at my “collection”, you’ll see that I’m into the scifi and fantasy stuff. My copy of The Guide is in English, which wasn’t a problem for me. So for me, a good book is something in you can find in the fantasy or scifi section of the bookstore, it can be both Dutch and English. And then, the book itself has to be good. Anybody have any ideas?

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Planet who?

Posted on Saturday, 25th of October, 2008 by Jory

Since this only shows up at planet ben ZB, I figured I’d join in on the spam as well.

Oh, and I have two things to say in here, too:

Stephen, fix your last post, you have a <strong> more then you have </strong>’s, causing all text below that to be bold.

Ben, stop using your FTP access to cheat and start using it to upgrade. 🙂

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Changing hosts

Posted on Sunday, 15th of June, 2008 by Jory

While I am perfectly happy with my current host, A Small Orange, I have decided to switch to a local host ran by a friend of mine called Huizinga Hosting & Webdesign (If you’re Dutch, reading this and looking for hosting: consider this company. Reasonable rates by any standards with great uptime, low loads and a phonenumber that is awnsered by somebody who actually knows what he’s doing, not some €5 an hour muppet who doesn’t know much more then how to pickup the phone and then get you to hang up asap. 😉 )

I make a backup of my cPanel user account at ASO a few days ago and, with the help of Bas, the previously mentioned friend, converted it into Direct Admin format and “restored” the account. After the almost flawless conversion (it lost my email forwarders) I changed the MX records at ASO and have been sending and receiving emails using my new host’s server ever since.

After a bit of checking, it seems my website got converted perfectly as well. (Heck, wordpress even remembers I am logged in.)

A registar transfer request was filed for my domain name and it should begin the 17th. (Bleh, first you have to ask your host for some code, then you have to click some link in an email to say you want to move, then you have to not click a link in another email and wait for that to expire.) So, starting the 17th~18th, everybody should be getting my website as it is served by my new host. Not that you’ll notice much, as it will look exactly the same.

Anybody still reading is probally wondering by now what the point of this entry is. Its OK if you can’t figure it out, because I don’t really know what the point of it is, either. I’m gonna hit “publish” regardless, though. 🙂

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New theme: Big Blue 0.1

Posted on Tuesday, 27th of May, 2008 by Jory

As you can see, I’m using a new theme. It is Big Blue 0.1. I was kinda getting tired of the previous theme and still suck at making my own, so giving the WP Theme Viewer a try was my best (read: easiest) option. I’ll probally try to tweak it a little, as right now, about 40% of my screen isn’t being used. Chances of increasing the width being an improvement are only so so, but thats what the undo button is for. 🙂

Oh, and those wondering whats up with changing the theme of an unused blog: I do plan to blog more. I’m just rather busy doing all sorts of things, none of which are blog worthy. :/

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