This blog shall remain up as a archive of my old articles and releases, though.

I don’t believe in deleting things. I’ve always dreaded the idea of deleting something I had created or written. As a result, this blog had been housing everything I ever wrote, since I first decided to start a blog, back in 2004.

Back then, I was still a little 13-year old wannabe kid who didn’t know much about anything, but liked to pretend he did. This meant that up until now, I still had quite a few terribly spelt, or otherwise embarrassing posts of no particular interest to anybody.

No more. I have moved these post to a blogger blog for archival, so I wouldn’t lose everything I had written while still not embarrassing myself on this blog. As of today, the archives of this blog only date back December 2006.

I haven’t posed here in more than a month, because a month and a half ago I suddenly found myself without a computer. The local power utility company, Eskom, burnt my motherboard down. I have already posted about how much Eskom sucks in the past, so I will not elaborate on that.

So my Mac was broken, just when the 1 year warranty was over. I sent it in for repairs, at a local Apple Certified repairs place. They quoted me for nearly R10’000 (That’s about $1500). After a month of nothing being done, I decided to just buy a new Mac, instead of bothering repairing that one. I bought a new iMac 20” 2.66GHz, and switched the RAM and the Hard Disk from the old one. I am now back online, with a brand-new computer, and I shall be updating this blog more often now.

The real reason for this post, though, is to announce my new site. I have had this idea in mind for a long time, and I really needed a site that could serve as my identity hub. By that, I mean a page that links to my main profiles around the internet: This blog, my company site, my deviantArt profile, my Twitter account, my last.fm profile, and lastly my Facebook profile.

Introducing kenneth.ballenegger.com!

I have to say I’m pretty proud of this design.

Here’s a short video of the main design steps & decision that went into this site:

I’m hoping this will look slick and professional.

I’m aware it isn’t totally finished: it brings IE down to its knees, and some parts don’t look quite right in Opera. I will do my best to fix these issues ASAP. If this is the case for you, I suggest you upgrade to a more modern browser.

Feedback is welcome! Tune in in the comments to see how much they rock. My comments show up purple, while the rest are yellow. It also uses a speaking verb at random from a hardcoded list, because it’s cool!

And be sure to click on the photo that sticks out.
It’s free, good-looking self-promotion.

This was mostly designed by Ernest Liu. Check him out, he rocks!