Some changes, mostly technical, but one key change.
For purposes of consistency, I have migrated The Staccato Slur from ajanimgo.com to staccatoslur.com. The old domain name will still continue to exist, but henceforth redirect visitors to the new domain while people get used to the change. All other related web presences e.g. email address, have been adapted to the new domain as well.
In short, reach The Staccato Slur at http://staccatoslur.com from now on. Shouldn’t mispell it if you can pronounce it. 
Driving this opportunity for change is a migration to a new web host, Cyber Ultra. My old subscription at 3iX had expired, and let us just mention that Cyber Ultra gave me a better value-for-money ratio. 3iX is a good host in its own right, though.
For the WordPress geeks, I have also done a review of the site’s engine; installing new plugins and removing obselete/unoptimized ones. Instead of using the old WP Super Cache, I am now using the W3 Total Cache that does database caching; gzipping; minification and CDN as well in one single plugin. Along with the optimization of a few site images, this should give quite a boost to the responsiveness and speed of the site. Unfortunately this has broken quite a few features e.g. Snap Shots; collapsible sidebars, but I think the end gain in speed could be worth it.
The admin backend is powered now by Fluency Admin. Looks that are consistent; features that are time-saving – why not?
These, and a series of other unstated plugin/method changes now make it easier than before to maintain The Staccato Slur, and understand from an admin perspective.
Does this mean that I will be writing more? Maybe, now that my staff job in the army gives me marginally more time in comfort to think and write. The alternative would be just to let The Staccato Slur stagnant as usual, but after writing to you of all these changes, I would guess letting it stay dormant would be dumb. After all, some of these changes e.g. domain name; hosting, cost money. But then, if I had no plans to write more on The Staccato Slur, then why would I have wasted money and time on all these? Hmm… Begging the question.
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