From this week onward I’m going to begin the process to make my other blog, shazzalive.com, active.

I’m in two minds about this: Firstly I was going to get shazzalive going full-tilt and eventually abandon this blog. I came to this decision after much contemplation, mainly for the following reasons: -

1) This blog was started along with the very start my blogging career, such that it is. – In fact, forget the word “career”; this blog was started along with the very start of my blogging. As I explained in the post I made on Wednesday; “Heads-Up on the Future of This Blog: Public Newsletter”, there has been a lot of major editing going on – possibly within files that should never have been edited by a newbie to php and blogging – and a lot of boobs have been made doing so: Not all of these boobs appear to have been satisfactorily remedied; therefore errors remain: Such as the “@@@marker@@@ @@@marker@@@” which appears on every page and post on this blog; and which I cannot yet for the life of me understand what is causing the unwanted text to appear.

2) Because I was so unbelievably green when I started out I chose probably the worst theme I could have chosen for the purpose. – That was the arty-farty part of me over-ruling the technical logical side of me: Yes I customised the hell out of it – in the most ill-informed manner, and almost ruined the entire blog in the process at times. Over an entire year’s work and experimentation has eventually produced a somewhat satisfactory result. – I hope: But the underlying php structure of the theme has hardly been changed at all: It’s much the same as it always was; just now mutton dressed as lamb, and still basically crap. (I don’t mean to offend the theme’s original writers here: If I were doing a personal blog on what make-up I wear every day then it would have been ideal. – But for a blog that was intended to be commercial and informative it was crap. – OK I’ll rephrase that: My choice of theme for the purpose was crap.) I’m still using the same theme. Why don’t I change it? Because this theme is constructed a little differently from others to some extent; and the amount of work I’d have to do having changed themes would be colossal. In the meantime my readers will be wondering why it looks worse than it did; if such were possible.

I made the decision to slowly abandon this blog and get shazzalive running. Initially I also made some grandiose plans of transferring all the articles that were worth anything over to shazzalive.com too : I announced what I was going to do; but when I started it I realised that it was going to be one heck of a load of work to undertake.

So for an update on the latest developments: I am still seriously intending to make shazzalive.com my new active blog; but I’m not going to doom this blog yet. It will slowly become inactive and a reference-source only; but it’s not going to disappear completely or be stripped of its content.

Shazzalive.com needs a lot of work done on it yet before it’s ready to start taking newly-created content: I don’t intend to make any of the major gaffes I’ve made first time around: This time; if I’m building an online premises, I’m going to build it solidly and safely before I start using it for business and/or accommodation.

I’m still not 100% sure of exactly what I’m going to do; but I’ll scrub round it and/or make it up as I go along no doubt. (I did that last time; but this time around I have a lot more idea of what I’m doing; plus I have the expert tuition of David Risley in his Blog Masters Club.) I’ll report anything major that happens and/or is going to happen.

Moving on; and the week has seen the affirmation of MicroHoo: The new Microsoft/Yahoo partnership that’s been on the table for over a year by all accounts, and which intends to put Google into second place. Whether or not it will do so remains to be seen: I have my doubts, but I’m not a prophet.

On kkomp.com, since the last official newsletter we have 4 posts including my impromptu midweek newsletter.

These are, in no particular order: -

How to Install/Change a Hard-Drive

A fairly easy subject, unless you happen to be a newbie to computer building/repair; however not the easiest or quickest of posts to write, as the subject matter had to deal with fitting both IDE (PATA) and SATA drives. SATA is pretty much a doddle; while PATA drives had to mention the jumper settings; which was the major part of the text.

Is It Worth The Risk of Running Pirated Software?

Believe me; you do not want to run pirated software if you can help it, and if you can’t help it then you’re either tight, insane, or bankrupt. – I kid you not; it’s more trouble than it’s worth, which isn’t a lot, and it plays havoc with your machine.

Heads-Up on the Future of This Blog

…Was the unofficial, or at least unscheduled newsletter, where I announced all of my plans for this blog, before rethinking them.

How to Adjust the Size of Your Paging File in Windows XP

- Gives some good advice and how-to, about, would you believe, adjusting the size of your paging file in Windows XP; should you wish to do so.

Decisions decisions. The coming weekend will be a busy one for me no doubt. If I go at it hard enough I might well get ahead of schedule. Therefore yet once again I provide friction for my konk by applying my nose to the grindstone yet again.

For your part enjoy the weekend and the coming week, whether you should be coming or going – And I shall endeavour to provide more facts and advice to titillate your ever raging thirst for knowledge.

  Namaste’

Err – namaste’ translates as “I bow to you”, not “I worship you”.

- Anyway don’t let me stop you enjoying yourselves: Carry on regardless.

I really don’t mind.