I started Friday by watching “Godzilla Minus One” and finished it watching “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” and they were exciting.

I’m glad I watched both of them in one day, it was a day full of Godzillas and the movies were actually quite different. Even though they both were about titans and monsters, they followed different stories and had different depictions of the monsters.

It was fun overall. I had some rest, some movies, and cleared my mind.

You probably didn’t notice it because the previous domain is now forwarding to this one but the domain of this blog is changed and you’re now connected to the new address.

Everything is working fine as far as I know and the previous domain is set to be redirected to the new one. All the previous links will forever work. I’m not planning on deleting that domain, in fact, I’m planning on keep using it for many years.

I moved to this domain because it’s shorter, easier to remember, and more aligned and suitable for this blog. I’m gonna update my links wherever I posted them and I’m gonna ask you, if you linked to me, to update them as well. Again, previous links will work forever but it’s nice if you could update them.

The domain change will be a disaster SEO-wise but I needed to do it sooner or later. I hope everything will get back to normal soon. This blog has been online for about four years now and this can be a new start for it.

Cheers.

Update: I didn’t think changing a domain would be this hard. Still no regrets though.

You may have not noticed it but my blog was down for few hours and I had to being it back up using a backup I had. Tarneo, who generously hosts my blog, noticed it first and he did most of the work on the backend.

But all my data was lost due to a faulty database. If I didn’t have a backup, you probably wasn’t reading this post.

This is a reminder that backups are important. I lost very small changes I made on the web site but nothing major was gone; I was lucky.

It takes me just about 10 minutes to backup my web site and everything else I have and store them on two separate hard drives. It’s super easy, encrypted, safe, and lifesaving.

Backup now.

Bonus: The Dangers of Digitization, and The Importance of Data Backup

I just found out that when you brush your teeth, both morning and night, you should spit but not rinse. Toothpaste contains fluoride which helps strengthen your teeth. By not rinsing with water, fluoride in the toothpaste will stay on your teeth for longer helping to keep them strong.

I’m exhausted from all the news and threats and everything. Every day we wake up to another horrible alert that another war is starting. I just wrote a thousand words and deleted all of it. It shouldn’t need an entire article to tell people how bad a war is. I’m just exhausted of being a Middle Easterner. It’s not fair.

I just surfed Mastodon’s site to choose an instance to sign up. Chose one that suits me and has open registration and few restrictions, and opened the link to read their terms of use. Then suddenly realized I’m like an alcoholic going back to alcohol. Closed the browser and came to write this post to remember I have a personal blog that I can publish anything on.

Paralogism: a piece of illogical or fallacious reasoning, especially one which appears superficially logical or which the reasoner believes to be logical.

One thing I have problem with is putting excerpt in blog feeds and forcing readers to open browser and visit the web site for whole article. If you do that, I’ll definitely unsubscribe and never visit your blog again.

So I changed the blog’s date format to ISO 8601. It’s the perfect system used globally. Using dates like September 03, 2020 causes a lot of confusions. Lot of American systems are stupid actually. Like why would you use imperial system instead of metric system?