Another Filler Friday

The past few weeks have been more focused on making my finances a little bit more cost-efficient. Since I can't do much about the household and familial needs, I decided to turn my attention to my online costs. Currently, I maintain four domains (will.ph, gormful.com, shutterview.net, and infi8.com). All of my domains are powered by WordPress and hosted with 1and1 Webhosting. I've been with my host for more than two years now, and so far, I can't complain. However, I wanted to find out if I can still cut back on my hosting expenses. Looking at my domains, I can only discontinue one of them, with infi8.com being the most eligible candidate for the axe, but not until I find new homes for my subdomain residents (friends and family, all two of them). The axe gets stayed in the meantime while I collect my thoughts and think about this more. Also, with four domains to maintain, it's beginning to eat up a lot of my free time, which is something that is very rare and precious for me. I decided to move the content of gormful.com to Tumblr. I chose Tumblr because I wanted to try out its engine, and that the themes are more customizable than WordPress.com's offering. The move was a bit tedious as Tumblr doesn't support importing posts from WordPress, and vice versa. I had to re-post each and every single entry I had from gormful.com to Tumblr. Luckily, I only have about 19 entries, so it wasn't so bad. I also found a theme that, with a few tweaks here and there, I was able to customize a theme that suited my taste. All in all, it took me less than a couple of hours to move the entries and update the A record of gormful.com to point to my Tumblr. Now, I don't have to spend as much time as I did before to maintain gormful.com. I can even reblog entries with a few clicks from Tumblr blogs that I follow. It definitely made updating gormful.com more regularly an easy task, though I haven't reblogged anything yet. My photoblog, shutterview.net, may be a little bit neglected, and new entries are very infrequent, but that is caused by my inherent ability to procrastinate. I love taking pictures, but I dislike having to undergo the tedious process of editing/resizing pictures and uploading them. Hence, the lack of updates. I will be spending more time with it in the future, but for now, a lot of my time has been spent in one big juggling act. As for this blog, I'm kinda stuck in a rut right now and I can't seem to feel inspired with what's going on in the tech world that it doesn't prompt me to write anything about it. Hence, this filler pretending to be a post.