Usually the rule of thumb is do that one post a year so you can still boast about how you are still an “active” blogger.  Well I didn’t even manage to do that. But I do have a good excuse and for those who can be bothered to read it, it’s down below (in fact some of it is still broken, so bare with me while I try and fix them). But long story short, Ruki is still alive and will slowly (so don’t expect it to be like 2 years ago with multiple posts per day) start to fill itself up with more fresh content soon once again. To the followers of this blog (if there are any left lol), I am back! To those  who are new to the blog, please be patient and why not read about my Aria pilgrimage while you are here ? I mean after all I am the first to do an Aria Pilgima…. I am very modest.

So where have I been the past year and a bit. Well…. exactly where I’ve been for the 2 years before that! If you’ve popped onto various blogging oreintated IRC channels you probably would have seen me on there at some point, lurking away in the corner. The real reason why the blog has been dead for so long was…. laziness, but it’s not the kind you are thinking of! Basically sometime in 2009 I tried to migrate hosts because I was spiralling down the path of poverty and had to adjust my expenses accordingly. What should have been a straight forward process turned into a big mess kind of like gantz. The fact that I was not the most tech-saavy person didn’t help either but let me try my best to explain what went wrong.

My old host had set up my sub domain as “www.ruki.flame-haze.net” which worked perfectly fine up until the point where I moved to my current host. Once I got the domain moved and all the files uploaded, I set up a subdomain, “ruki”, exactly as I did before. However, nothing worked. I tried everything my technical knowledge would allow me to but still no luck, in fact i couldn’t even find out what the problem was. Frustrated at that point, I just left everything there to rot. This would explain the period that the domain pointed at nothing. That was untill the day I randomly brought up the issue with some very technologically advanced bunnies. They called themselves Astro and Mellow (seems like his domain is gone). Apparently the problem was within the subdomain itself, the “www.” part to be precise. My new host is apparently incapable of setting up a subdomain with “www.” in front, again I tried everything from setting up a subdomain of “www.” within the subdomain, to spamming them with angry emails, to giving up and go read some Aria instead. Very fortunately the bunnies were there to help, they came up with a solution that would fix most, but not all, of the problems. From what I can make out from the technical jargon here is how it goes, everything in my databse and wordpress were pointing to “www.ruki.flame-haze.net”, which does not exist any more. So what I needed to do was just open up my .sql file and do a find&replace, replacing “www.ruki.flame-haze.net” with “ruki.flame-haze.net”.  Like Akari would say “Suteki!”, worked like a charm.  Of course, this only got the blog working and there were still alot of broken links internally and externally  to and from the blog, which I can do nothing about (take that hotlinkers!).  Of course this includes the AB Antenna and Anime Nano. But main point is, at least it’s working! So a big thank you to Astrobunny and Mellowbunny!

To be honest, dring this time I haven’t really been reading other blogs and keeping up with what’s going on in the blogosphere. So much have changed, some old timers have left, other blogs have resurfaced, whilst other authors have migrated to other blogs and some even got married to their readers! Thanks Nova for the update today, apparently his one man troll army had evolved into a duo in this time as well, go check them out. Speaking of fellow bloggers, I was lucky enough to actually meet a few of them in London. Omisyth apparently goes to uni a few hundred metres from me, talking to Danny Choo and Deranged (blog now dead) at SOAS was surprisingly inspiring and TJ’s visit was filled with fun and humour. I’ll save those story for another time though.