Aki's Blog

Three years has passed to the day since my first post on this blog. I can’t believe it’s survived for so long, but it has and for that I’m greatful. I guess it’s because I don’t really care who if any reads it, I only post things I need to write for one reason or another. I think that’s the point of a blog. Lots of people really care too much about writing every day, and in the end that’s they have to take a pause. That’s lame. I try to keep at least one post a month, and so far I’ve been successful, for 36 whole months. Woah. Oh well, see you in another three years.

//Aki

Hi there, my fellow fans! No one probably missed me, but this blog accidentally went down (after I failed to update some things) about a week ago, and just went up again – updated! I used to have this really old WordPress version and wasn’t feeling to safe with the idea of updating it as there would have been a slim chance for the entire system to crash, and losing all my active blogging since 2006 didn’t sound too tempting. But as the blog went down and I didn’t know if the database was safe to survive anyway, I tried updating. Win or lose it all. It turned out really easy, and here I am.

I also got a new layout on the same time, now the Pixeled theme created by Sam Karathanos. Beautiful!

All my pictures got deleted in the crash though, too bad but hey, life goes on.

Every day, I get about 6500 hits for one single post on this blog: “Simone Simons infected by MSRA“, mainly for that damn pic. The second most popular is the main page, with circa 500(!). I don’t mind, it brings quite a lot of people to my blog. I did a search on Simone Simons on Google just a minute ago, and that picture on this site is the first hit! I didn’t think it was that big. Hihi, cool. So now I know how to get audience here: Hot metal singers!

In today’s copy of Extra Östergötland (an Ostrogothian daily newspaper) in the technology part (I always find it interesting hearing about the new trends and new ideas in IT and other technology), the biggest story had the title “Still Blogging? That is sooooo 2007!”.

Okay, I have never cared for trends, NEVER. I dress the way I think looks good and is comfortable, I play the computer games I like, watch the movies I like etcetera. And I try not to react to hard on the damn kids following every 1000 euro  fashion trend, but this frustrates me. Who the hell cares that it’s not cool to blog? I don’t blog to be famous or cool, I blog cause I need somewhere to react and show what I feel for certain things – like a diary – and because it’s always good to have a backup with all your school projects on, if I lose my computer for example. And then again, things like showing something to my friends – just send them a link to the page on your blog where it is.

I don’t care if it’s “sooo 2007″ to blog, I have never cared. I don’t care for trends, so shut up.

So here we go again, yet another layout change. My ordinary readers has probably learned by now how often I change it, but I just get tired of it all the time. The new one is called Elements of SEO, and it more or less as simple as it can get. I am going to write my own theme… sometime. I promise.

…and now a little message to my Swedish readers about my new blog…

För mina svenska läsare har jag nu (sedan ungefär två veckor tillbaka) även en svensk blogg som på sätt och vis är aningen mindre personlig och mer uppordnad. Samhällets Spion handlar om vår värld, helt enkelt; jag skriver krönikeliknande inlägg som behandlar för- och nackdelar med det svenska och internationella samhället, precis som så många andra bloggar helt enkelt saker som irriterar eller frustrerar mig, alternativt saker jag tycker är bra. Det som skiljer Samhällets Spion från The Hopes Were High är att den är på svenska istället för engelska, och att den istället för att ha med allt möjligt (uppsatser, citat, meddelanden, reklam etc) har den enbart små samhällskritiska skrifter. Kommentera gärna inläggen, poängen är att skapa debatt.

//Aki

I am really slow on the comment moderation, I have noticed. I’m almost up to 10 000 unmoderated comments, as always 99 % spam. The annoying thing is that there is no button for erasing them all, I have to erase the last 100 first, then update, erase the next 100 and so on… If anyone out there has an idea of how to fix this (some plugin for erasing all comments awaiting moderation at the same time), please contact me at ua@johansson.gs…

Okay, so here we go with the occasional new layout. I just love this one, dark blue waves… I simply love the ocean by night, it seems like it has its own personality in a way. It’s strange. It’s so incredibly calming watching the ocean by night, just sitting there watching the waves.

Also, it reminds me of the cover of Nightwish’ Dark Passion Play album (I know, I simply can’t write a post without mentioning music. Kill me, please kill me.) .

Wohoo! I’ve updated Hopes Were High to WordPress 2.3, created tags instead of lots of categories, and fixed a brand new layout! I haven’t written the layout but STILL! Hope you’re all happy now! Mihihihi…

Once again, I updated the site’s layout. At least this one’s really clear. :)

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