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  • Time To Update The Site Again

    Posted on by suguay

    I have neglected this site for quite a while. I can’t say that it won’t continue to get neglected after I do this updating. But it might get a little more activity.

    I should probably address a couple of things before I get too far as if I do start to post here more often the posts will definitely be different.

    Games

    I’m not playing nearly as many games as I was and I’m not playing as often. I have reduced my consoles to just one. I still have an Xbox. I use it more as a media streaming device than for games. I have apps for my cable company as well as Netflix and that sort of thing on it. And while I do have a couple of casual games on it, I have not played them in months.

    I was playing World of Warcraft until about a month ago. I’ll be honest, I hate Shadowlands. I didn’t like it in preview, but I bought it anyway and gave it a good try. I even got my main level maxed. I was trying to level an alt and realized I really hate the zones in the game, if not for their cultish theme, then just for their layout. They are some of the most annoying and complicated maps to get around. And since I wasn’t having any fun, it was time to stop. So you will have no more updates from that one.

    Updates and plans

    The biggest update you will notice is the color scheme. I’ve decided to go with something lighter, though it is currently still the same theme.

    As time goes on there may be additional changes, either to the layout, customizations, or possibly the entire theme. I’m not sure yet. As I was re-acquainting myself with the site and the theme, I discovered that this is a very robust theme, meaning, it allows for a lot of customization and control. Which was something I found challenging on another site recently.

    I would like to shift the content of the posts for this site. It is still my site for experimenting and I think because of that it will be a good place to discuss some of the technical/computer based things I might be working on or learning, and in some cases both. I will likely have an occasional opinion post on those sort of topics. And…there may still be a game related entry on the occasion, if I find something interesting or irritating that I want to comment on. I do not anticipate many such game posts.

    I think it is time to find a new header image. I’m working on some options. I haven’t decided what I want to use yet so I’m not sure if I’m cropping a photo or creating a new piece of art. But to be sure, there is other art I’ve used here that I will be changing for future posts. Anything already posted will remain as is unless I happen to make some sort of global change that then overwrites something. I don’t expect to.

    I’m also going to work on the base page at: https://suguayproductions.com. It is looking a bit dated, and to be honest it is. I think it is time to make that look a little more modern and polished. At least that will be the goal.

    Last note

    I would like to say that this is just the beginning. But since I have not been consistent with my posts on any of my sites in the last two years I really won’t make any promises. I do have some things I am learning and working on that I think this site, as it is experimental, will be an excellent place to either test or implement (I am going to try not to break it completely) and it will be a good place to write about those things too.

    It could be an interesting adventure.


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  • And…I’m Back! Mostly.

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    I know it’s been a really long time since I updated this site. Sorry. I got busy with a bunch of other stuff and kept forgetting to get back to you all. I’m still doing all that other stuff but I’m going to try to get some updates here a bit more regularly. I’m going to aim for once a month with possible bonus stuff in between.

    In case you weren’t aware. I’ve got another blog that I talk about my art stuff. I do 3D computer art using programs like Maya, 3DS Max, and Zbrush. I also do a little traditional art. I post regular updates about what I’m doing and the kind of progress I make over on the other site. I have a link here on the front page. You can also get to it here. (http://susangasong.gnasus.com) That’s some of the other stuff that I have been doing. Well besides earning my first degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

    For this blog I’ll be covering techie type stuff as well as games and maybe other random stuff. Full disclosure here. I do way to many other things and have way too many other interests to be a hardcore full time gamer. So my progress is slow. To go along with that, at the moment, I’m playing more than one game on more than one platform.

    So to go along with my trying to do more posts on this site. I may also be doing some refresh and reorganizing of this site. Anyone coming back from way long ago or who has read any of the old posts, may remember that this site started out being built on Joomla And I later migrated it to a WordPress site. Which is what it is now. When I did the migration, I didn’t do much reorganizing. I was happy just to get things to move over since I had to map from the Joomla fields to the WordPress fields. I did have some clean up to go with that and didn’t spend much time on changing how things are laid out.

    To close out here’s a quick note of what I’m playing these days.

    Fallout 4 on Xbox One

    World of Warcraft Legion on PC

    Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Switch

    City Skylines on PC

    Watch Dogs 2 on PC

    I’ve got a few more but these are the ones I’m most focused on. I was playing Fallout Shelter on Xbox One and got a little frustrated with all the Deathclaw attacks so at the moment, I’m a bit in a snit about it so I’m not sure I’ll continue with it.

    So there you are. That’s it for now.


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  • More to Come

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    There will be more updates to this site.

    I’ve been a bit busy with other projects and sadly have neglected to keep everyone here updated.

    It’s been quite a busy year with many things to do and work on and learn. If you have had a chance to read some of the postings from SusanGaSong, (the recent posts are in a section to your right) then you will have some idea of what is taking up so much of my time that I don’t get to post here. If you haven’t read any of those posts, I encourage you to give them a look, especially if you are interested in 3D computer modeling, animation, or even games.

    Do come back and visit me here. I will try to get an update from Bluecoal and maybe even a bit of some other things I’ve been working on.

    See you soon.


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  • Maintenance Complete – July/August 2015 – That Was Interesting

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    The maintenance is now complete. I hope. I will know for sure when the old hosting account finally expires. Otherwise, I have successfully managed to move my websites to a new hosting platform. I did run into some issues and interesting bits along the way.

    For instance, I had named my original hosting account the same as my domain. At the time that was the thing to do. Unfortunately this created a problem when I started trying to move things around. I tried to move this site first as it was the site I had used to test so I thought it would be best to do that. When I did that, my other website that uses/used the same hosting account dropped off the internet. Well, not entirely. It just wouldn’t show up. It mostly had to do with the IP address for the hosting account.

    I had to take a step back and reset the hosting account IP information first and then I moved my other site over to the new hosting account. That went pretty smooth for the most part. I ran into one problem and that was with my backup software. I have a lot of pictures in the articles on that site and the content files are getting to be good size, at least for last year and this year. That caused a bandwidth problem for my site when I tried to run the backup and the compression piece. I finally found a backup software that would let me drill down to what was being backed up and that let me create a multipart backup. That sure took some work though. But since that is the site I keep up with most right now, I was glad to have it all up and reasonably stable.

    This site was not as cooperative. Once the other site was moved and everything else was uninstalled and the front page for this site moved, I tried changing the IP address again. And it seemed to go ok. And then it didn’t. The IP address would change back to an older one when I pinged it. When this happened the site wouldn’t come up. It took a few calls to tech support at GoDaddy to finally get it resolved. The problem was an A record entry for the domain that was pointing to an address that was an accelerator. Several years ago GoDaddy had this accelerator function that was meant to help the site load faster. They have discontinued that and at least one person I spoke with said they think it was discontinued before they started. I tried to edit or remove the record but I couldn’t. They finally had to get the developers involved to remove that record and things seem to have stablized finally.

    I did learn a bunch of stuff, as is usually the case, with this maintenance cycle. I still have some changes I would like to make but don’t have the bandwidth right now to test them and then implement them so they will have to wait.

    Thanks for your patience while things were a bit messed up.


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  • Upcoming Site Maintenance – July/August 2015

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    This site will be undergoing a bit of maintenance within the next week.

    As any of you have visited this site over the years might have figured out, this site tends to be the test site for anything I have to figure out or do for some other site. I thought I might be past that and yet here we are again.

    It will be moving to a new hosting platform. That requires that I move the site from one IP address to another. It also requires that I move the application and the database. All a little tricky. And so the ‘previoulsy experimental’ site once again becomes ‘an experimental’ site. Not to worry though, I have made progress since the earlier days of the site and now have a way of testing most things before messing it up for you.

    Since I have already tested the process, and found some of the pitfalls, think I can make this move happen with as little downtime as possible.

    I am hoping to get this done within the week. Certainly by sometime on August 2. I have another site I need to migrate after that and I only have to sometime in August to do it so I need to get started.

    Sometime after I’ve moved both sites there will be some additional maintenance changes take place as I will be updating the look of the site some as well. So some fun stuff to look for.


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