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!
Not an end
It’s always hard to decide when to draw the line. When to close a certain chapter of your life and move on. It’s also hard to decide what a chapter is. Where does it start, where should it end (should it end at all?). It’s hard to accept such changes, but life goes on and there’s nothing you can do about it. There aren’t that many choices really, it’s more a matter of deciding to structure what’s already there.
For three months now I’ve been considering changing the website and it’s already been a month since I started thinking about changing the blog also. It’s about time thoughts touched base with reality, as these changes will once again reflect the changes taking place in me. A chapter has been closed, a new one must be open. Part of this change will affect my blog.
I will be working on some of my new design ideas over the course of the next few weeks/months and changes will be made during this time, granted I have time for it. This blog will most probably become less personal, more public and more technically focused. I doubt there will be any new postings until the work is done, but no promises of any kind there.
I should note that this is not the end of my blogging activity, it’s just a necessary shift. I am changing the way I publish “myself” online and what private versus public should be. Some of this is long overdue so I’m happy to finally get around to do it. Granted, some of my old readers will be slightly disappointed by the “new” blog, but I’m planning on having them covered some other way. Soon to come…
The heart of Davy Jones
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In a dreamland far away from here, a long time ago, I met a human who taught me how to find and open the chest with the heart of Davy Jones. Funny that now, many years later, I would be hiding Davy Jones’ heart because of that same person. You can’t ignore life’s irony.
I reached a conclusion that I can best formulate in the following way: When I speak, people listen. When I shout, people shout with me. When I sing, I sing alone. So I’ve decided not to “sing” anymore. As a result, some of the posts that you might have previously read on this blog have been unpublished and from now on, such posts will not appear again. At least not too soon. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about… use your imagination, you’ll figure it out.
