My Private Thoughts
Thinking Allowed

Recently I had photobucket issue me a warning that I was approaching my bandwidth limit. I was puzzled. I always thought I had 25G and that they were secure online storage for some photos of mine. Apparently not!

They are now only 10G and this reduction was done without any warning what so ever! I was horrified I mean, would it have hurt to just inform us they were changing policies?!

I’m thinking of using Flickr now. They have a storage limit but at least they don’t have a bandwidth limit!

I have a subdomain somewhere that has a lovely PR3. I enjoy seeing that green bar because it represents my hard work getting it noticed in the big wide web.

Lately, I’ve been thinking of taking it one step up and registering it on its own domain. However, I am loathe because I will revert to PR0 and it’ll take another PR shakeup before I get any PR back again. On the other hand, I might actually get a better PR next time round, no?

Hmm… decisions… decisions…

Thoughts?

When I moved my site to a new host and server (after my old one died on me – I must write about them some day!) I upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.5.1. This is Wordpress’ latest update and probably their most stable for now.

What is more noticable about Wordpress 2.5.1 is the change in the whole interface. Previously it was stark but now its got lighter shades and looks somehow more professional. The old Wordpress Admin interface made me feel like it was slightly amateurish. Now, I feel like a blogging pro! However, one thing I must say is that the write post area isn’t as user friendly.

I don’t know why they placed the categories right at the bottom of the post. This makes me forget to place the post into the proper category resulting in a lot of “uncategorised” posts. It might be easier for writers if the categories was left as it was. Given a choice, I’d grab a festool and chop away all the bits I don’t like. LIke the fact that sidebars for widgets are now only showed one at a time. I’m female! I can’t cope with remembering what goes where! Is this Wordpress’s way of telling us that we should only have 1 sidebar in our blogs?! Well, I do on this site, but not on other sites. Its no wonder I don’t want to upgrade my other blogs!

Its a  pity.

When I first started blogging, PPS or Petaling Street, Malaysia’s blog aggregator where you can ping your new posts, was credible. You found well written articles and credible bloggers.

But now, every other post I see is about F**k or Sh*t or sex or just any manner of vulgarism. The worst thing is that the blog contents are sometimes really bad too. I’m not saying I write great articles but heck at least I can spell and I have a decent grasp on my grammer!

I’ve stopped pinging PPS. I realised it did not make a difference either way. My traffic is still there. So, why descend to the masses?!