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For a year ago, I promised not to update this site anymore. Well, I couldn’t keep it, as you can see, but I will make another attempt except for this post.

My site was hacked. There is something about this particular version of Wordpress I suppose, but anyway… For a couple of days, this site has been a spamming site or something. I have now tried to remove all traces of the hacks, and tried to secure the system a little bit, but as I don’t really know exactly how the smalldicks entered my system, I cannot guarantee it won’t happen again. If it does, I will make this site static and unupdatable.

Now… Please let this site rest in peace.

As you might have noticed, this site has been practically dead for a very long time. Well, except for all the spam of course. By running the SQL command “DELETE FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_ID` >=10929″, I deleted the 3009 most recent comments. And that is just a small addition to the 25000 spam posts Akismet caught. I beg for apologize on case of removing some real comments.

As I do not really know what I want to achieve with this site, I will not update it anymore. I will keep it up and running as a reference, at least for a couple of years from now, but I have disabled the commenting system. Eventually, I will start a new web site. Probably in Swedish only. I will then post a note about it even on this page.

And to you, who have read my articles and watched my photos… I hope you enjoyed them. Thank you for your time!

Ok, this time I am serious. I have decided to switch my default URL for this site from the old www.johan-svensson.se to the new johansvensson.eu. Note that there are three changes. First and foremost, the top level domain is now .eu instead of .se; secondly, there is no longer a dash between johan and svensson; and lastly, I have removed the www prefix.

The main reason for this decision is that I will eventually create a new site, dedicated to my Swedish music project. Yes, I know, I haven’t told anything about that yet, but that is because I haven’t had much time to work with it. However, I’m aware of the fact that it is hard to move a site from one URL to another. Therefore, I will let it run with a HTTP 301 redirect from the old URL to the NEW for some time. Probably a couple of months. Please, do update your bookmarks and links to the new one meanwhile! One day, the old URL will point to a new site, completely written in the Swedish language.

For the sake of clarity, I’ll repeat the essence of this post; Please update all your bookmarks and links to this site! Do the following changes:

1. Change the top level domain from .se to .eu
2. Remove the dash between johan and svensson
3. Remove the www. prefix.

My dear friend Jens and me are up to an interesting discussion. Jens claims that my site is not a homepage, because it is a blog. I claim that a blog is a homepage, but he strongly disagrees. I have asked him for a definition of “homepage”, but I cannot say I have received any satisfying response. However, he has provided a few examples of what he classifies as homepages. What they have in common, is that they are built of static HTML files and are note very often, or never, updated.

I asked him what I need to do in order to turn my site into a homepage, or more exact, what is missing on my site for it to qualify as a homepage. Surprisingly enough, he replayed “content”. Then I immediately asked what is wrong with the content of, for example, “Making gphoto2 Accessing Canon Ixus 700 Correctly“. Can you guess what’s wrong? It has a timestamp…

Dear World… I have always wanted a homepage, and now, when I finally have made myself one, I am informed that my homepage is not a homepage. Can someone please help me with the definition here, and tell me what the heck I need to do, in order to homepagify my site? Many thanks in advance… /A lost soul

Cryptic subject? I am sorry for that. It’s not like it sounds. Actually, I want Sweden to cancel their membership of EU. What the subject refers to, is that I have registered a .eu domain, that just points to the same location as this very homepage; http://www.johansvensson.eu. I have not yet decided whether I will make that one to my default URL, or if I will keep this .se domain instead. I don’t like the dash between my first and last name in the .se, but of course, someone else owns johansvensson.se (and boy, that page totally sucks). Oh my… Life is full of complex decisions, isn’t it?

My kind friend Kent pointed out that I should switch theme on this site. Well, I said, eventually I will make my own theme, and meanwhile the default will do. He then reminded me of the Beeblebrox Theme that Kent himself is using. That is a really nice one. Ok, I said. I’ll give it a try. And voila! I find it alot nicer than the hard-to-read default theme, and it looks much better with the gallery as well. Thanks Kent, and thanks Thomas Weibel for the Beeblebrox Theme!