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Update Success!!
Dec 21st
The update finished successfully. The gosh darn index.php got me again, but I sure fixed it! (Oh, how much I hate that blank PHP script… SILENCE ISN’T SO GOLDEN!!!)
Anyway, it works
Linux is in my repertoire, and I’m proud.
Dec 5th
Well, before I get to the whole Linux deal, I might as well mention some changes to the website. If you look up, you’ll see a cool image, which I made. There are also minor improvements with the site, and I’m setting up forums (I may decide not to, but you can check them so far at forums.appsonroids.com. OK, now to the headline.
My family recently decided that our old laptop from several years ago, the WinXP era, was ready for demolition. We ordered a replacement laptop from Dell, and at some point I remembered my lifelong goal of owning a Linux machine. I specifically wanted Ubuntu, but a friend showed me Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu with a nicer UI and some improvements like Flash so it works out of the box. I installed it, and my only complaint is the limits of this old laptop’s RAM and CPU. It’s one of those computers that has less than a gig of RAM, and whose CPU doesn’t even work well. But, Linux works better than the XP that was on it. And it looks great, a feat people rarely attribute to many Linux distros. Although I’m not a serious Linux user, at least not yet, and I only know one terminal command, (shutdown -h now), I’m pretty proud of myself. Too bad the web browsing isn’t great, due to the terrible RAM, and I couldn’t post this from it as a result.
Site Moved from blog.appsonroids.com to appsonroids.com
Nov 26th
I’ve moved the site from the old subdomain to the main domain, added a redirect, and caused it to become a real website, instead of just a blog. The only thing that is really affected by this change besides the site itself (which is set up to redirect anyway) is the RSS feeds. Simply switch your RSS from blog.appsonroids.com/rssurlextensionhere to appsonroids.com/blog/wp-rss2.php
This should change it. You will still get RSS from the old one, but it’ll only give you changes to the home page, which isn’t very useful!
Thoughts about the website…
Nov 22nd
I’m thinking about turning this blog into the main website. I’ve seen this done several times, and, let’s face it, I can’t do HTML for my life. I might set it up separately, or I could redirect you guys to the main website while I’m working on it. It’s not going to happen anytime soon, but I just thought that I’d let you know that I’m seriously considering it.
If you’re interested, the basic layout would use the pages buttons that run along the top below the header, and Blog would be one of them. I would have the one you land on called Home, which would include some links to important parts of the site, as well as some highlights. I would have an About section, an Apps section, a Blog section, and maybe some others. Then I would have a hopefully nicely designed site.
If this sounds like a terrible, horrible, idea to you, leave me a comment about it. I need to rack up my keywords for search engines anyway.
Ads Added to Website
Nov 18th
I just added an add (Whoops, typo) to the website. If you find it annoying, I can remove it. However, I’d like to experiment and see how it works. It doesn’t seem too bad, but just leave a comment and let me know how YOU feel about it.
Site Updates
Nov 17th
Yup. I changed to using an iframe embed instead of plain text pages. I also added pictures that I have made (well more art, but you get the idea).
Enjoy
Back up!
Nov 17th
I got it back up. I just had to replace my index.php with the old one (2.8.5’s version)
This is good.
I should be fixing the rest of the blog shortly.
P.S. – I’ve made a few additions to the website, namely Google Analytics. Hopefully working soon.
