This is my newly re-done, resuscitated blog, which I haven’t used for over a year.

Improvements are:

- A new, better theme (neoclassical). Also created new photo headers for it from my photos.

- Upgraded WordPress (to 2.6 from around 2.2). (see more about this below)

- Got rid of articles I didn’t really like.

- Re-did the Categories from scratch

Regarding the WordPress 2.6 upgrade:
I upgraded because I wanted to make sure I was able to use new features and be compatible with themes, and it sounded like there was something called “widgets” that were part of the new deal. Unfortunately My categories were wiped out in the upgrade process (from I believe 2.2). I tried going into the MySQL tables, as suggested by this post by a programmer at another blog. However, there were more database rows than a Google cached page of my old blog categories showed, and it seemed tricky to sort out. so, I simply deleted all the old categories and started fresh. This turned out to be better anyway, because I was able to come up with better, clearer set of categories

Always aim for the simpler, more beautiful solution.

8/7/0
Update: I created a couple of blogs at WordPress.com a couple of days ago thinking that would be a way to get more traffic to the site, since it was part of a large pooled domain of subdomains, and I’d noticed that many times my Google searches on various topics took me to www.blogname.wordpress.com sites. Well today I did some actual research in to the topic (using Google and the search terms “blog seo wordpress.com vs. self-hosting”) and discovered that there are good reasons for thinking self-hosting is actually the better solution. For example, this struck me:

“8. Better SEO (WordPress) – You can use plugins to SEO your blog. You can use plugins like All-in-One SEO to SEO each post, link checker to check for dead links i.e. links that are not working.”
(http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/08/self-hosting-your-blog/)

A number of commentators (bloggers) also mention a number of other compelling issues, such as control (e.g., plugins, coding), and the ability to advertise.

So… I deleted all the posts at quantumfrog and thequantumfrog blogs, as well as everything else except the “About” link (which links back to this site).

It was a learning experience (trying out wordpress.com), and not a big deal to create and delete them. I got to learn about export and import
in setting them up. There were only 8 posts, so it was not a big job to delete them and the three (static) pages.

I also renamed this blog to “Blog Sin Nombre”.

Had a little fun with the title of one of the defunct blogs, calling it “This Blog Does Not Exist” with the subtitle “except in your imagination”.