Apparently, the technoscape of this poor little island of mine is doomed to face continuous hiccups. My home connection has now been dead the entire weekend with no substantial explanation for why. I’m writing this at the lab, my main medium for information and expression cut in half by what appears to be blatant carelessness.
Fantastic news! Think Artificial has been accepted into the 9rules network — one of the most prominent and high quality blog networks around! I consider the inclusion an awesome honor and recognition. New members haven’t been officially announced yet, but seeing as the 9rules leaf is up on Think Artificial I thought it best to explain. Update: Announcement is up!
I upgraded Wordpress yesterday and have been noticing some minor quirks here and there on Think Artificial that I’ve needed to fix. The ugliest of which is the damaging of special characters in the blog entries. I’m working on fixing everything but please be patient. Let me know if you come across something strange around here! -hthth
I’m back baby. Renourished and ready to roll. First thing’s first: Two weeks without a computer proved an interesting experience, but putting myself back into the web-savvy circles is proving even more interesting. Blog posts have piled up, along with email, news and all sorts of spam to sift trough. Yargh. The web monster demands my attention. (Doesn’t help that my mouse feels strangely unfamiliar.) I’m picking up a vision; yes, I see constant computer use and several liters of coffee in my future. Expect Think Artificial to kick back into full gear in the next few days. [Updated!]
Tomorrow I’ll be taking my first vacation in two years! Me and my girlfriend are headed for the lovely beaches of the Canary Islands for two weeks, where I plan to surf, go scubadiving and get some Sun on my skin (whose usual dose of light is limited to LCD glow)!
But Think Artificial won’t be dead in the meantime. I’ve written up a 2 part article which will be automatically published while I’m away!
I was recently given the Thinking Blogger Award, but work has been keeping me too busy to write en entry on it. Chip of Chip’s Quips named me for the award — which has been making its round memetically for some time now on the blogosphere. The award is given by bloggers to their peers that make them think. I’m very happy to hear I’m inciting thought and give my humble thanks to Chip for the award.
Today marks Think Artificial’s one month existential anniversary!
I wanted to take the time to humbly thank everyone for the great response I’ve received so far — your comments and mail always make my day and are great motivators to keep writing regularly.
I just put together a YouTube Think Artificial Channel as an experiment. For those unfamiliar Channels, they are a user’s collection of videos (neatly categorized) that others can view and subscribe to. Up until this point I hadn’t used YouTube channels, but seeing as I often post YouTube videos, I thought it might as well be good to actually keep a collection of them all in one place — along with the various videos I like but don’t get around blogging about.
It’s almost exactly a month now since I made the decision to take my blog to the next level by purchasing a domain and move to a new host. It’s with great pleasure that I unveil the fruit of my labor, Think Artificial — a very appropriate name on so many levels.
Think Artificial is a venue for sharing my interests, news and issues related to artificial intelligence, robotics, technology and intelligence in general. Of course, natural and artificial intelligence are related to a heap of cool technologies — so the content on Think Artificial can be quite diverse. Read more on the About page…
The new blog project is moving along quite well, albeit slowly. I’m happy to announce that I think I’ve finally managed to pin down a domain name, which I’ll be revealing soon enough. I say finally because I had to first go through the frustrating phase of discovering that most of my ideas were already taken, the second phase was actually deciding one from the final 5 great names I’d narrowed it down to.
I’ve also been taking my sweet time evaluating the dozens of recommended hosting services out there — many of which get such similar reviews that it’s very hard to choose between them. But it looks like I’ll be going for Network Redux. They have very good pricing, just-enough-disk-space and their customer support staff has been, by far, the nicest and most helpful compared to other hosts I’ve been in contact with. They also offer a lot of one-click-install features, which suits my schedule quite nicely.
I’m pretty excited over this and really can’t wait to open. My plans involve a lot of improvements, a noteworthy evolutionary step, which I’m sure will be appreciated by others than myself.
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