Hopefully this will induce me to write more and proofread the enormous amount of notes I already have in draft stage. And hopefully that will lead me to continue writing more diligently in the future given how far I have yet to go in developing a style to call my own.

My thanks given, let’s get onto exploiting this newfound power irresponsibly by letting you all listen to an old electronica song I wrote a few years back and recorded early in 2004 after finally buying a proper synthesizer. The song should be so much better — particularly the various very cool ideas in it should have been worked out further and cleaned up –, but I still enjoy listening to it. I hope you all do as well.

The song is called “Heaven Is The Sound Of Children Laughing” and the name I decided at the time to use for my experimentations with electronic music was Siaynoq — chosen both as a hat-tip to all Dune lovers and as a slight joke about the image of ravers as indulging in some sort of ecstatic orgy.

With all that said, I’ll let the music speak for itself.

The next steps afterwards will be finishing the photogallery integration, integrating video and music playback directly into the site, adding clickable translations for passages quoted in foreign languages and moving over to a new layout.

Along the way, there’s a lot more content to be added: old entries that I’ve just gotten to revising, very old pieces of writing that I’m sorting through and importing and a few translations from Spanish literature.

Comments, suggestions and complaints will be useful during the revisioning and re-envisioning process.

After finishing adding all of the entries from the past variations of this site, I’m planning on going even further backwards and adding entries from my private journal, which has slowly been replaced by this website as this “blog” was its natural successor, being filled with the same sort of things I was writing before there ever was a website — or before there ever were blogs even. As such, expect an enormous and continual increase in the amount of content on this site for the next few coming months as I work my way back to the first journal entries I feel should be made public.

Please feel encouraged to make suggestions as the process of recreating the site begins. I imagine that, in the next few days, various problems with the new system will come to light and your help in pointing them out is very much appreciated. In addition, please keep checking back over the next few days as there are several posts from recent days that I haven’t been able to finish proofreading in time for this transfer and they should appear online sometime soon. And, finally, as a note, this look is only temporary while my friend Harek and I work on creating a new, much nicer and much more distinctive design for the site.

As one final note, I also imagine that a few emails will be lost during the transition between servers. I will do my best to keep track of all emails throughout the change, but it is quite likely that at least some emails will be lost. If you feel any email you send to me has gone too long without a reply, please send it again. You have my thanks in advance and my apologies for the inconvenience.

All that said, it begins.

Fortunately, my infinitely beloved — and now transfinitely more greatly beloved — Harek had the test website open in his browser from before the deletion, so that we were able to recover the site’s state from the time before the deletion. It seems in all probability that not a single post has been lost. Those of you know me well, though, know that I’ll still wonder if somehow something unremembered has been lost.

Regardless, here I am and here I remain.

That said, this site’s move to WordPress is now begun as of 1:22 AM on Monday, December 4th, 2005. I’ll have to write a script to import all of my old posts and then all of the content that has ever been published on the site should be available with proper permalinks and commenting features. Also, before 2006 arrives, there will be a new, slicker and more professional layout for the site as well as the addition of videos and other types of contents to celebrate the site’s move from experiment to accepted part of the Internet.

As always, my thanks go out to everyone who reads this site even once and even more thanks go out to those who read it regularly. I’ll keep working to make it worth your while.

Ah, the convergence of selfishness and selflessness is beautiful.

Aside from the ongoing task of recording something with the band, I’ve just gotten over a pretty strong case of the flu. I give my apologies for all the phonecalls I’ve not yet returned, emails I’ve not responded to and chores I’ve still not done. Starting to catch up with updating this site today is the first step in catching up.

Oh, another thing. Last month the traffic to this site more than doubled from the month before. To everyone who’s helped — many, many thanks.

And, once again, let me thank everyone who comes to this site and reads what I write on whatever schedule. Your support is truly worth more than I could ever hope to repay. I’ll probably say that so often that it sounds hollow, but it is the truest thing I can say.

In the next two months, I’m hoping to move the site onto proper blogging software (almost certainly WordPress) and do some design clean-up, so that the site will render more consistently across browsers and screen resolutions. In addition, the blogging software will finally allow for those wonderful eternal reminders of what I was once audacious enough to say in public called permalinks as well as comments, which is undoubtably the most direly missing feature of the site. Finally, I’ll also be able to post more consistently as I won’t have to proofread all of the updates before I add one of them.

1: dangers of myspace
2: siaynoq
3: blood for blood another wasted night
4: boyfriend applications on myspace
5: deception and clever conversation awards lyrics
6: further seems forever i’ll give you my life if you’ll give me y
7: john myles white
8: john white author
9: myspace dangers
10: rather let me fail than never to have tried at all
11: san manuel bueno trinity
12: so kiss me hard because this will be the last time that i’ll le
13: summary on ‘san manuel bueno martir’
14: symbolism in san manuel bueno martir
15: the dangers of myspace
16: themes for san manuel bueno martir
17: women as natural victims
18: your hands didn’t move but neither did mine

That and Harek complained about the old picture.