Bloggy blog...

In the last 3 days I spent an incredible amount of precious hours figuring out how best to start a blog for this proejct...

I used to have a self-designed blog, still available at: http://jeffou6182.chez.com I would have loved to just revive it (no posts since 2009), especially as back in 2009 I spent a lot of time adding the facility to add comments. The advantage is that I could customise the layout as much as I wanted.

Unfortunately the wesite provider has blocked its ftp access to foreign IP addresses. Meaning if I'm outside of France I can't upload new pages or update my website. There's a couple of ways to go around it, but unfortunately the french authorities are blocking more and more of these, to the point that for a non-proficient internet user like me it's not feasible to update my own website as long as I'm sitting in Germany. A number of people started using the ways to bypass such limitations for illegal purposes such as downloading or watching french television without paying the appropriate fees...

I then tried to open accounts with website hosts in germany or worldwide, but among those which provide mysql facilities, few are free, and those are not always stable. I started with heliohost, but had to change a number of lines in my programming, and I faced a server crash on the second day. THis discouraged me to keep doing the geeky programming. I don't have time for this like I had in the past...

I went around the providers of "blogs", and this extension of google seems to be the most customisable and easiest. Sadly it won't bend exactly to what I wanted to design, but I've learnt to be flexible, I've learnt that sometimes I shouldn't be so stubborn about my visions, and that imposed changes should be taken as opportunities to review and improve my plans.

This is the story of how I failed the medical visit because of a slight ear deficiency at a given frequency. I wanted to join the french army as an officer, to command troups and save the world. Took me some time to bite the bullet and accept that mother nature didn't want me to join (it's an interesting story, ask me about this=)). So instead I enrolled into capitalism, and suprisingly after some time I find myself thankful as by making the most of it it took me to a couple of other countries, developped a new verison of me, made me discover the mountains, without which this blog and this project wouldn't even exist, and most importantly made me meet Anja.

This is to say: let's try out a ready-made blog format and see where that takes us!