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A couple of days ago I was greeted with an "Account Suspended" message sitting on my mailbox. Upon further inspection I realized my hosting providers had suspended my account due to a query overloading their servers. WTF?? That's what I get for using old un-cached code with naive queries and disregard huge waves of spam-comments.

To get my site back up I couldn't just go through the entire code removing key features and nit-picking every query. Too much work and little reward. Instead, I thought it was high time I put in practice some things I'd been reading about (not nearly a large scale app, but this is as good a sandbox as any). So I whipped up a pretty basic layout, used the old database schema and overnight I had my blog up and running again. The worst thing was having Google slamming into 404 walls and losing the pagerank I'd been gathering over time.

Anyways, this post is nothing more than an explanation as to why the place is quite different and you are – for now – unable to comment (if you want, drop me a line to the address at the bottom). The reason for this is me not wanting to rush things and I really don't have that much free time right now. Working full-time and studying for a final exam is not for the faint of heart, I tell you.

But stick around. Keep checking back or update the feed link, as I'm improving the place a bit. Been sprinkling here and there with microformats and I intend to take it yet a bit further. ;)

Meanwhile, if you're interested in some bookmarks, have a look at my Ma.gnolia (rss). Also, if you want, have a peek at my stream (not really ready for the front stage yet). More on this later.