So, finally the layout of the site has changed, at least the main page. I have to do something for the rest of September, no?
Of course there glitches, if you came here before this post came up, you have seen it fallen to pieces, because the previous post has a video in it, and the way I pull out the post for the main page cut the embedding script in half, which messed up the whole layout – unexpected un-paired <div> and </div> tags are a huge pain, but I don’t have to tell you that.

So the main page is a twisted, and reworked, and changed Arthemia2 theme, and this page will change too, Fractured bloughts will dress up in a twisted, changed, tweaked, blown up and ground down version of Mimbo theme. It will take a bit of work, and another small effort to assign a category to every single post on this site, because Mimbo is category driven, and I have not used categories for the last 2 years here. Sheer luck I don’t write too often, eh?

So that’s it and if you ask why I did write this post, I tell you because I wanted to return the main site to the normal layout, and writing a post without pics and video was the fastest and easiest way. Yes. I am lazy.

Now, all is back, unfortunately the Thumb on the Lens is totally gone – yes, I know, but I swear I thought it was backed up daily, like this one. It was not. So, my Fractured Bloughts have been saved, but the photos are gone.

And it was a surprise that when I did everything like last time, from installing the server to configuring Apache, it did not want to work. Totally baffled, only thing that gives me consolation is that as I looked for the solution on the web I realized that a lot of people have this problem.

And after the usual tips – set chmod right, set chown properly, run a2ensite, etc. – don’t solve the problem the threads fall into silence. So, it was a myffic event, I reinstalled it twice, and at last it works. Beats me why. Probably quantum.

I am not really sure what happened, but it was down for about 70 hours until it was removed. Then, I had to get my site data back. Well, regular backups are a good idea, but you don’t learn it until you got burned. At least, I was in a really good company with this trouble.

So when I could not reach the site for two days, I went to look for a new hosting possibility. here, I want to say thank you to @darkgracie, @karenswim, @inkedmn and @solidsmack for the fast help. The winner was slicehost, ’cause I am a geek, and a control freak, so I like the idea of messing up my own site in a thousand different way.

So far I am content with it, probably because I did not mess around enough to completely screw my installation, but just wait.

So, after a long fight, I restored my site, and now I hope it will not disappear suddenly. And I promise I will make regular backups. Like every day.

So far, I like the new dashboard look, although there are some weird things, like texts sliding over each other, but those are just small glitches.

The only thing that really is inconvenient is the fact that everything that was on the side until now has been moved below the post editing area. I hope there will be – or there is – a way to put the category select and such back where it was. I hate scrolling down so much.

I really loved the cartoon, and hunted for it for a bit, then finally I put on a comment, asking for some information on the whereabouts of the cartoon.

And lo and behold, a fellow commenter posted the link – thank you John -, but what was really nice, and a rather surprising experience that the blog writer himself wrote me a letter pointing me to the post with the cartoon.

A really pleasant experience Hugh, thank you very much.