12.24
Depending on how you got here, you may have noticed a change. I have been putting this change off for years and finally decided that now was the time.
I bought a domain name (two actually).
I am now the proud owner of voidreturn.com and voidreturn.org. Right now, I am using the .com because of the name recognition that comes with it, but I think the .org sounds better. I even setup Google Apps so that I can have a mailserver without running the server (I highly recommend doing this unless if you have a personal site).
I am still running my own webserver because I just don’t like the idea of not hosting my own stuff. Internet connections are cheap and fast these days; I have 15 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up, more than a personal site would ever really need. I realize that it’s not as reliable and can be more time consuming, I’m a control freak (why do you think I still run Gentoo?). Over the next year, I will most likely upgrade my router to a 1U server and upgrade the storage space in the file server to count in TB instead of GB.
Also, you may have noticed that I updated all of the old links and installed a broken link checker. Broken links now appear with a strike-through. Even the name of the blog has been updated along with an apropos quote by Emile M. Cioran.
I’ve been using the dyndns.org address for nearly 10 years; it’s sad to see it being phased out. It will still be available but will basically redirect to voidreturn.com. Nothing is static, everything is evolving.