Fitness category
After a long debate I have decided to include a “fitness” category on my blog. I found this word to best encompass everything that I intend to put there: post related to general health, nutrition and training.
I hesitated to do so before because I didn’t want to become one of the way-too-many “Internet experts” (i.e. people that pretend to be expert in fields they do not actually have a good grip on by propagating information through the mostly unchecked Internet medium). My decision to actually start writing in this category came together with the concept of focusing more on my beliefs and personal experience, rather than general advice. It’s also a big part of my life, so it should be here. More on this soon…
Getting serious?
I never think of myself as a blogger. I don’t write often, I rarely write about things that interest more than a select few and I don’t do it in a very original manner. But I enjoy this and changes in my life have all been reflected in this blog as it bounced between being a photo, tech and purely personal blog. Further more, one of the pieces of unsolicited advice that I often give people is: “no matter what you do, put passion in it and thrive to at least do the best you can”. So what does that mean?
First of all, I will attempt to add some structure and dedication here and actually post regularly and put a little bit more work in what I write. I would like to stress the word attempt since I got no idea whether or not this will actually work out as I want it. But this blog deserves a bit more work. At the end of last summer I decided to split my public online publishing activity into three components: this blog was going to remain the main component, but it was going to suffer some modifications to remove the very personal things out of it, give it a more presentable view and this has been mostly succesful, I should say. The second was to create a private forum for myself and very close friends that I had difficulty keeping in touch with and that was done shortly and has been going very well also. The third component which was also the least important has actually been a failed attempt and I will not spend more time here on it, I will just say that the need for it was easily covered between the previous two, as I realized some time later. So as it is, this remains the single public publishing online spot I work with and I feel it merits some more work and I will try to get on that.
Second, althought I am still debating exactly what the best manner to go about this is, I will look into adding more categories and variety to the blog. I do a lot more things every day than criticize others, look back at good memories and listen to music. There is a lot I can share with the world (whether “the world” actually wants to read it or not is a different story) and I think I should at least try. More on that soon.
Third, I started out on the wrong foot since this post is one day late according to my own personal schedule, but even more of a reason to catch up! Stay tuned, I hope you’ll be getting more updates on your RSS feeds from me very soon!
More domains
I’ve purchased the domain alexflorescu.com
Currently it points to this same website, but this will probably change at some point in the – not necessarily near – future. No worries, I will let you know when that happens.
Moding – part 1
Following the advice I received I made a few subtle modifications to the theme.
Most importantly:
- It should be easier to read now
- I added back the email sign-up form
- I decided I will leave the top “buttons” as they are, because I can’t imagine any way of making them better, at least for now.
There’s still some more work to be done, please feel free to send feedback!
Back in business
One of the most famous quotes attributed to Thomas A. Edison is along the lines of “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. I guess I could say that about the design work I did for the new site. I tried many various things since my last post, lots of work and research and in the end I ran into this theme on a friend’s blog and decided it’s simply better then everything else I did. So I am now counting on Edison’s principle to keep me from believing I wasted work and time for nothing.
It will probably have some future mods and I haven’t finished writing all the content I wanted, but it will do for now, as I have to many open-ended projects in queue. So welcome back and I hope you enjoy it. As always, feedback is more than welcome, it’s still a work-in-progress!
