After a good few years of life with Mandriva, I think it’s about time for me to upgrade myself in the world of Linux. I would quite like to leave the world of the n00b binary beginner distro users to the world of advanced super-duper 3133t source-based distros. Well, though, I’m not so technically adept as to switch to something as hardcore as Linux From Scratch, however. Instead, I am now running Sabayon Linux, which is built based upon the popular source-based Gentoo Linux distro, with some modifications of its own, mainly such as the recommendation of the primary use of their binary repository manager Equo, instead of the powerful Gentoo-default Portage system (which is still included though in Sabayon though, with its own Sabayon overlays).

Pardon the many technical terms for my less technically inclined readers, but really, you should take a Linux for a spin, too,  and learn a little more about it.  It’s one of the greatest inventions of the late 20th century that will reduce your fear and apprehension to computers which Windows probably created in you since young.

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Tags: 20th century, apprehension, choices, desktop manager, fear, flags, gcc, greatest inventions, linux, linux from scratch, livecd, mandriva, repository manager, sabayon, superiority, wireless desktop

For the uninitiated, web syndication in this context refers to the retrieval of my posts via the RSS feeds you see. If you don’t exactly know what is it still (you should have a rough idea at least), you ought to go and learn more about modern web technologies. In brief, web feeds allow you to download news articles; blog posts; site updates etc. into a feed reader, like Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, Google Feed Reader or the like. And it just gives you the pure content, nothing else. No distractions from flashy ads and screwed-up page layouts (usually). Thus in one solution you get your articles stored and sorted out according to their origin site (instead of newsletters which you must manually sort into mail folders); email privacy and ease of management and distraction-free reading.

To all who understood that, or the rest who already know what I’m talking about, or use it even (on my blog or not), this lamentation’s dedicated to you.

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Tags: background images, css files, distraction, distractions, free reading, google, grand scheme of things, industrialist, lamentation, loading image, mail folders, mozilla firefox, page layouts, rough idea, scheme of things, slur, thunderbird, van gogh, web syndication, web technologies

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.

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Tags: 3ix, backend, consistency, consistent features, domain name, fluency, geeks, key change, method changes, migration, optimization, responsiveness, sidebars, site images, slur, snap shots, staccato, staff job, web host, web presences

Okay, WordPress 2.7 has just been released recently and The Staccato Slur’s just updated to it. The most immediate observable change seems to be the admin panel; the bluish-white “playful” colour scheme has made way to a more refined, classy greyish one, with the fonts used changed as well to contribute to a final user experience which feels quite… Elegant.

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Tags: admin panel, candy, colour scheme, dashboard, elements, fonts, inclusion, interface, internet applications, observable change, open source, party plugins, staccato, third party, user experience, wordpress blog

Okay, now. This isn’t like a totally new blog or anything, but it’s the first post since its revamp. Some changes explained for the readers coming in from The Abridged Ajani:

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Tags: aesthete, customization, despair, existentialism, foucault, header banner, inertia, linkage, nietzsche, no doubt, philosophies, playing a game, pretty much sums, revamping, romanticism, sartre, scissors paper stone, smoothness, tagline, thematic structure