As only the most attentive readers may have noticed by now, I redesigned my blog. It’s been a while since I have done that, and the former layout started to bore me a little.

So I went ahead, got myself a template from freecsstemplates and tweaked away. It wasn’t a Wordpress template, so there was quite a lot of work to do, but I am quite pleased with the outcome.

Gone: The old design.

There are a few advantages of the old vs. the new layout. First, more room for more awesomeness: The articles used to be only 500 pixels wide (and that was already stretched from how the old layout came out of the box). This one has 575 pixels, plenty of space even for bigger pictures.

“New car” scent not included.

Second, due to the famfamfam icons I built in it should all look a little neater and be hopefully quite intuitive. Just for fun, I also added “magazine-style” quotes, just like the one you see on the right.

At last, my comments now differ visually from everybody else’s:

I hope you like it. Oh, and if you find anything out of the ordinary, let me know!

The server migration I announced earlier should be complete now.

The DNS entries may still be a little wonky (if you had trouble reaching my web page or even sending me an email for a little while, that’s probably why), but apart from that all should be peachy. The new box is quite snappy, so that’s good!

Oh, of course the new server has a new name, too: Rest in peace, Aurora, and welcome to the family, Luna!

Later tonight, the webserver this blog (and a bunch of other sites) runs on will be migrated to a new, bigger server.

The main reason is that the old box ran out of RAM quite frequently lately (it is a virtual machine that has a flexible RAM limit). The cause of this was mainly the ever-increasing amount of spam, and in spite of the most recent counter-measures, the little VM wasn’t able to cope with it any longer. The new server has a bigger CPU, twice as much RAM guaranteed, and other improved features that make me confident that the change is the right step.

For you, dear readers, this means you may experience a few problems loading our websites while we are performing the migration (sorry) but we’ll try to keep it to a minimum. You’ll be rewarded with an even faster, nicer, and obviously awesomer fredericiana.com later. Thanks for your patience!

This is a meme I borrowed from Freya. It’s a Google image search meme. Search for your answer for each one, and pick your favorite from the first 3 pages.

Feel free to pick it up if you like, and don’t forget to trackback!

While Freya got a bunch of “naked chicks” in her search results (and neglected to include them, much to the dismay of her male readership), I got a bunch of muscular models that share my first name–who I conveniently chose not to display here either (sorry female readership ). Here we go:

Your first name:

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