Also, check out my flickr.com website because I’ve added more photos to it!  I added some pictures from the Foo Fighter’s concert, the 80′s party I attended yesterday, and more photos from Maryland!

Anyway, I’ve updated my WordPress to 2.51, and I hope this means this website will run smoother and securely.  Oh, I’m also going to add a new commenting system using intensedebate.com‘s commenting ecosystem (a funny word to use in the digital world, but if I do succeed in creating a community here, then ecosystem isn’t too far off the mark!).  So if you see something here that needs to be commented on, go right ahead and do it!

Also, if you have at least one working eye, I have added a picture of my roommate’s dog, Snickers, at the top of the webpage.  She is an awesome Chocolate Lab, and I thought it would be cool to have her looking down on my webpage.  In fact, I think you might eventually see me up there with my legs hanging over the “ledge.”

I’ve also added a Twitter updater on the far left right (oops!).  Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a social networking website that allows your friends to keep tabs on you.  If you don’t have too many Twitter friends, you can get these updates via a text message/SMS on your phone (or you can choose who you get updates from).   SMS is limited to 140 characters and so are Twitter posts or “Tweets.”  Due to this, you need to keep your updates short and pithy.  I recommend it to everyone, because it’s just a simple way to keep up with people and to also coordinate a group of friends/people.

*Footnote:  I don’t have posts from July 2007 to Jan 2008 due to the lack of a backup database.

And so, I’ve chosen WordPress as my new blog CMS.  I couldn’t be happier.  It’s easy to use and post content.  Unfortunately, as these CMS’s get more robust, it’s harder and rather time consuming to create your own look and feel.  So, what you’re seeing here is a reflection of an aesthetic choice than a creative process:  I just don’t have the time to create my own “kooz” themed website.   I chose this one called, “”SoSuechtig 2.9,” and I really connected with it because it’s minimal, classy, and easy on the eyes  It was also designed by some dude from Germany.  A hearty, “Gutentag!” to whoever designed this!  If you’ve noticed, some of the descriptive elements are written in that lovely Deutsche language:  I’m debating whether to keep it or not!  I think it adds to its kitchy appeal…we’ll see.  I also like it because us English speakers in the Midwest probably don’t go trolling German websites.  Ergo, my website, for all you know, is unique!  Language barriers FTW!! 

What you will see are more posts, and I’ll be importing old posts in an archive.  Unfortunatley, I lost about 10 months of posts due to a mix up with my web host:  even though they did botch it up, it is squarely my fault because I didn’t maintain backups.  Any web person worth their salt should frequently back up their database.  I had only one database/website backup, and that was from June of 2007.  The good news is that I probably only lost about 4 or 5 posts at most!  W00t for being lazy!

Update: 11:21pm  I’ve disabled registering/being able to leave a comment, even though you think you might be able to (In this case, if you can read German, you might be even more suceptible to this.).