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Silly Mistake: Redirecting

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I didn’t know this, but there’s a tiny movement against having “www” subdomain in links. Just visit no www to read up on some of the reasons why.

>Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

The reason why the site was “down” for the better part was yesterday was that I installed this: no-www wordpress plugin. The silly mistake I committed was that I forgot when I set up JoshKim.org, I had asked for any request to “joshkim.org” to be sent to “www.joshkim.org”.

If you visited either one of those links, you would bounce back and forth… and back and forth… and back and forth… until the browser gave up on the request. I don’t know about you, but I got this strange looking error that wasn’t a 404 or anything I’ve seen before.

I realized this error after finding out that there wasn’t any server outage reports on the Dreamhost Status Page.

Just a heads up to those that might want to follow with the rest of the Internet in making it a “www”-less world… and so that those people won’t make the same mistake as I did.

The Obligatory Daily Post

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Let me tell you about today… I woke up. Did work. Ate Lunch. Did some more work. Went to WIMPE. Ate Dinner.

However, my daily routine changed a bit when I got to hang out with Derek, my ISR roommate from freshman year. We just ended up talking about the new CS coursework requirements and the new things in ourlives. Then we dived into Guitar Hero 2 and some co-op play of Splinter Cell, like the nerds we are.

Now, mind you… I haven’t played an FPS since… well… I guess if you count the time I randomly sat down in front of Colin Das’s computer to play CS… about two months. But it’s something about playing a game with someone… and a game that’s as good as Splinter Cell… that brings two hardcore nerds together.

Why do I write this? I realized again that I really am who I am. I am a nerd. Period. I’m probably going to enjoy some type of real-time interactive simulation until the day I die, regardless of how the older population thinks about such “frivolous” things. I also understood… how far I’ve come in not being just a nerd. I kinda fell out of the hardcore gaming life a while back… I mean, I don’t even have a Wii right now…

Currently, my TODO file is getting larger and larger. Just today, I moved all the posts from my wordpress.com account to here. I also asked Alex to install Gallery on this server. There should be some large changing coming to this blog… soon… but I’m not going to make promises like last time and look like an idiot.

Updates will come when they come.

And dizang, I’m tired. Must… wake… up… early…

Tags Tags Tags!

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I had Jerome’s Keywords installed, but I never liked it. It seemed like there was a lack of people behind the plugin, and so I decided to ditch it.

I will, from now on, be using Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159 (Yes… that is the exact version number…). While the lack of… “purtiness”, as well as the timestamp of the post dating to November 30th, 1999… 12:00 AM… Google, as well as a lot of people on the wordpress forum agrees.

This creates yet another list of things I have to do to get this blog back into gear. I have to go through some (ahemALLahem) post and start tagging again. I have a feeling, though… I probably will just keep on with creating some worthwhile content.

I think in about a week or so, I’ll really start firing off some worthwhile posts. I have about 10 articles that have been started… but I might have to start thinking about what this blog really is going to be about… if I just start writing about all the random things in the world that interests me… I’m going to be writing for some time.

One realization: Since I’m not a writer… and since writing isn’t my main passion, I won’t one day turn this site into a main source of income. I don’t think it’s even possible.

But once again, the two Josh Kim’s are at war again… Do I separate the blog into a personal blog and a more professional blog, or keep it how it is now?

And what’s the solution to the image hosting situation? Dang it, I gotta get on that.