I don’t know if it is because I am in Indonesia, but things seem to take so much longer to get fixed. For instance, my website and my blog went broken a couple of weeks ago… I would say that it should be fixed in no time. But hey, you know Murphy, and especially his law. Everything that could go wrong - did go wrong.

It started when I could not access the internet from my home. Somehow Indonesian internet service providers mix-up the terms “instable” and “not working”. We already got a letter from our ISP saying that in “the next week” (this was 3 weeks ago) the internet would be instable. For compensating the inconvenience, we got two vouchers, each with the validity of one month free internet. The vouchers are valid until 31-Dec-2008. YES, you read it right 2008. Not long after that, internet failed completely. I was unable to connect from my home at all. And at that exact time (timing couldn’t have been better), the website broke down.

How to fix it… I spent some time trying to fix things via my office, but this is only possible after hours. Internet at the office however, is very instable (instable, not out). In despair I went to the office on Saturdays. I even tried to use the internet at the Cazbar, but guess what.. the internet there was down also. In the end, I was not able to fix things… even after installing joomla and wordpress again. In the mean time, the internet at home was dead as a dead internet can be.

Finally I gave up and asked my webhost to change my account from Windows to UNIX. This took many many days to accomplish, but at last, my UNIX account was ready. Today, I re-installed everything on the UNIX host (at my office) and see what happens: the website is up again, the blog is running again, and yes… internet at home is back as if it never left (yes.. jam karet they call it here - elastic time: 1 week is actually 3 weeks).

I am happy now.

Since the integration of WordPress into Joomla is not really working for me (especially the ping services), I will keep on using this Blog for a while.
I hope the OpenWP soon will be working perfect… until then I will post here as well.

Although the previous posting was supposed to be the last one, I still want to give some practical information about the new blog and its location.

The URL for the blog is: http://photo.ruditheunis.com/index.php?option=com_jd-wp.

The rss feed for the new site is: http://photo.ruditheunis.com/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&feed=rss2.

Also, please visit my website regularly, because it is updated much more than before.

The last few weeks, this site has had some major changes. Not only he layout changed, but I also embedded a gallery and a blog into it.

The gallery makes it easier for me to upload images; actually, the whole site is designed to change the content at a blink of the eye (a long blink). It will allow me to make the site more dynamic. Because of the new gallery, the old one at http://fineart.ruditheunis.com will be offline very soon.

As the blog is now integrated into the site, the old blog will become obsolete. It will still exist, but no new posting will appear on it after this one. Please, if you have a RSS reader linked to it, change the feed to the new site.

The forum site is closed down. The forum was not used anyway.

I hope this site will become better in time as I will try to add useful information about traveling and photographing.

Any suggestions or remarks, please let me know.

Hey everybody,

My gallery is up and running again!

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Rudi

Hi everybody…

My provider decided to un-install the GD library. This library was used by my gallery pages, so… my gallery is not working at the moment.

I am trying to find a solution for this problem.

Regards,
Rudi

Happy New Year everybody. May 2006 become the best year in your life upto now…

Hello everybody!

I published a new story on a blog page.

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Rudi

Hello everybody!

I published a (my first) story on a new blog page. It is about watching dolphins.

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Rudi

I added a new gallery under Places: Sea, Sand, Sunset with 7 images.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Rudi

I added a forum.
The forum can serve as a guestbook. You must register to be able to use the forum, but registration is FREE.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Rudi

I added a new album (People) and a new gallery (Sara, Chinouk and Onar) - all about cats :-).

Enjoy!

I added a new gallery (Candi Sukuh) and some new images.

I also upgraded this blog script.

Enjoy.

New pictures (14) uploaded in album Any Other Business, gallery Graveyard.

Enjoy!

Hi,

Finaly I have installed a decent galery script. I am using Snipe Gallery, which is realy neat. It will enable me to upload pictures more easiely.

New pictures have been uploaded also… check them out under Images - Galleries!

Regards,
Rudi Theunis

At last, the site has become operational. Only a few things left to do: my bookstore and (even more urgent) adding photographs… I will try to add photo’s every week from now on.