New domain

Finally, after a long, long wait, the domain — minus​five​.com — is mine! (and yours to enjoy of course!). I’m sorry if you were get­ting used to the whole minus​five​-design​.com thing, but I’ve always loved short and sim­ple domain names. Unfor­tu­nately, when I started using the nick­name (minus­five), I still didn’t know much about how the whole ‘inter­net thing’ worked; I just knew how to get ‘online’ on Microsoft’s™ Chat, mIRC, or what­ever other chat room I’d find. A cou­ple of years later, when I started to play around with HTML, I was still a high school stu­dent in Colom­bia, and the domain and host­ing prices (in US dol­lars vs. Colom­bian pesos), seemed absurd to me at the time. Later on, when I was ready to get my own domain and start pub­lish­ing, the name was gone; some­one had already pur­chased it. For some rea­son who­ever pur­chased ‘minus​five​.com’ never used it! That was about 7 years ago, and I’ve been fol­low­ing it ever since, and it was never used! It was just a blank page sit­ting there, with no pur­pose, no mean­ing, nothing.

On the 21^st of Novem­ber my girl­friend came to visit from Florida. We’ve been force­fully sep­a­rated because of the stu­pid immi­gra­tion poli­cies of the US, and since we now have more than a thou­sand miles between us, her vis­its are not an every-day event as you can imag­ine. So I promised I wouldn’t touch my com­puter (or ‘her rival’ as she calls it), for the length of her stay. I can’t say I was com­pletely faith­ful to my promise, but I did reduce my com­puter time con­sid­er­ably since she was here. Then, after she left on Mon­day the 27^th of Novem­ber, I started my ‘online rou­tine’ as usual: check e-mails, main­tain site, research for new arti­cles, look for pic­tures to add to my gallery, etc. Then I looked to see if the domain was finally avail­able, and to my sur­prise, it was! Imme­di­ately I pur­chased it, added it to my host­ing plan and started read­ing about mov­ing my Word­Press setup to my new domain. This lat­ter task proved itself more tricky than I expected, but finally I’m through with it! Lat­est prob­lem I had was that every time you went to my site at ‘minus​five​.com’ or clicked any link to any of the posts or pages, a blank page would load and then you would have to re-load the site in order to see it. For­tu­nately, I found a forum about it [Link], and found it to be a prob­lem with the cache plug-in and the PHP ver­sion on my server, and after a cou­ple of tricks I was able to fix it. So here we are. New, sim­pler domain. I like it, and I hope and believe you will too. I’m still in the process of mov­ing every­thing to this new domain, so I would really appre­ci­ate it if you could report any bugs you find; just drop a com­ment below.