On the bright side, I’ve finally sweeped off the dust off my guitar and started practicing again. After almost two years of hiatus I’m actually pleasantly surprised that I still remember all chords that I knew before and can find most of their scales without having to look them up. There is one downside though. My fingers aren’t used to the metallic strings of my acoustic guitar anymore, so the progress is quite slow. It’ll also take some time to regain my previous agility in changing chords and staying in rhythm, which is proving to be quite a pain in the ass right now.

The moving of mladi.net from lunarpages to a more reliable host is also something that is giving some variety and dynamics to this summer. Apparently it’ll be up to me to come up with a good design to replace the current one and to better reflect our movement to a completely new platform as well. I haven’t really done much web designing in my life, the one so far (planthefuture.info) sucks, and the promised redesign of Time Recursion appears to be stuck somewhere on an expedition in Himalaya, wearing only shorts, a t-shirt and some old, holey All-Star shoes. Though the concept I came up with so far, looks quite good in retrospect to everything else I’ve made up to now.

Oh, and there’s also “getting familiar with php-symfony” on my to-do list, so I can help my buddy with the new platform for the website.

On a lighter note, I’ve upgraded my blog to the latest wordpress version, and fixed the commenting system which was causing some trouble lately. Oh, if you haven’t noticed yet, we’re no longer using the SezWho plugin. They’ve been acquired by JS-Kit, which uses a similar system, which is richer in functionalities, even a bit too rich if you ask me. And since it offers so many options, it makes the commenting interface too complicated and bulky, complicated to a degree that I feared it would do more damage than good. And it doesn’t support Gravatars! How could they forget about them?!