bloggo ergo sum

My site has recently been moved to a new hosting provider, Dreamhost (dreamhost.com). I was previously at LayeredTech.

It doesn’t really have anything to do with LayeredTech’s service — because I really like it. They give you your own box for less than $80/month. A really good deal. The thing is, my personal financial situation didn’t warrant my spending that much on that. I have multiple computers at home on a cable internet connection that is fast (upload stinks, but the download is fantastic). I could run my own server from there. I also found, via reference, another hosting provider that gives me 95% of what I want at about 15% the cost. Check it out Dreamhost. Pretty amazing offering, really. Don’t forget to tell them that “aggieben” sent you.

For those of you who might have been following my previous blog…sorry for the interruption. I didn’t do much to keep my site up while I was in the process of fiddling with DNS and switching hosts. I didn’t even think anyone one was reading my site, but I check my logs the other day and saw that someone was subscribed to my rss feed (to my suprise). Anyway, things should get back to normal now. I’ll try to get my old posts moved over to this blog, but don’t hold your breath. If you read my blog, you know I’ve got more important things to do, you know, like fulfill my mortgage payments.

You’ll also notice that I’ve changed the name of the blog from “tail -f /dev/mind” to “cogito ergo sum”. Why? Well, for starters, only someone with some experience using UNIX-like systems will know what “tail -f /dev/mind” means. In this context, it means something like “dump my mind”. Instead, I’ve chosen cogito ergo sum as the title. It’s a Latin phrase, meaning “I am thinking, therefore I exist”. It’s well known, particularly by folks with an interest in metaphysical philosophy. The more common translation is “I think, therefore I am”, which is what most people will think it means (as I understand it, it’s a slight mistranslation). Anyway, it conveys the idea that this site is where I think, and thus where I exist, but it does it in a catchy and concise way.