in future the following things will never be touched by me: wordpress and servers. i can't begin to tell you the amount of time i've spent in the past year attempting to keep this site up-and-running when i could've been spending that very time adding content instead. whilst wordpress is brilliant in many ways, the one fact to keep in mind is that it's the most resource-sapping piece of shit i've ever had the displeasure to use and unless you have the money to buy an indestructible dedicated server or the technical brainpower and willpower required to fiddle with settings constantly, i would not recommend attempting to run even a mildly popular blog using their software on your own server. and as for hosting companies, i can't even bring myself to talk about it. fucking idiots.

so anyway, a couple of weeks ago the site went down due to a combination of problems and i subsequently hit brickwall after brickwall. in the end i decided to dump my setup as it was just too demoralising and move the site to blogger, google's blogging platform. i don't give a toss about lack of features at the moment, as long as i don't have to worry about servers and then periodically have to pay through the nose for atrocious customer service. the site's extremely bare as you can see and at the moment i'm attempting to redesign the one half-decent blogger layout i could find. due to the problems i mentioned and retarded staff, all my old posts are in limbo at the moment, so bear with me. even if i do get hold of them again all the urls are gonna be different which will cause me even more problems, and that's provided i can find a way to import posts to blogger from wordpress, a process which apparently isn't common at all.

in short, the past 2 weeks have been a gigantic ball-ache and it could still get more frustrating. i'll be trying to post new stuff asap but who knows. my temporary email address at the moment is ddogblog@gmail.com. if you've sent any emails in the past couple of weeks, i haven't recieved them.

here's to technology.