I haven’t been able to post lately on my website due to having LOTS of work at University to do. I would still write a bit in my free time, but the amount of effort required to upload what I had written to my website caused me not to do it. To upload to my website I would have to first take what I had written from a word document (or a openoffice doc or text file) and put it into a template HTML document. I would then have to upload the images to my website and link them to the page, along with formatting the page so that it doesn’t look so bad. This took AGES and prevented me from actually making content. I didn’t have oodles of free time to do all this, so the documents just sat on my disk. I finally thought around the same time that I switched back to my HP Spectre, that if I wanted to update my site, it needed to be easier.
The site looks slightly different.
yes, I copied the Twenty-Ten theme from WordPress, then modified it to be closer to the old site. I still prefer the old one, but this is a good compromise between functionality and aesthetics. Again I could have made the theme look closer to my old site, but I don’t have the time to do that so this is fine.
Why?
I have realized that if I want to publish more often, then I need to be able to do it easily. Yes having a website with pure HTML and minimal CSS is good and all, but when you need to get something done under time pressure then it needs to be easy and just work. I came to this after getting a less than ideal grade on a test, I passed it but not by much and realized that I was spending lots of my time maintaining my laptop, making sure it wasn’t bloated, that where ever I sat had a outlet nearby, keeping an eye on how much software I had open at once. This is not ideal when you are under the pressure of constant work that needs to be done. I decided after I rode home from the test, that I was going to go back to using my HP Spectre x360. I even reinstalled windows 10, which had not been on this laptop for two years. Everything just worked. Firefox opened near instantaneously, I could have AutoDesk Inventor open along with spreadsheets and documents, without the computer slowing down. I hadn’t used a computer this fast for over half a year at this point, it was like taking a hiking bag off your back after a long trek, a breath of fresh air. It wasn’t all positive though, The annoyances of windows immediately started showing, the constant begging to upgrade to windows 11, the advertisements in the start menu. I got rid of most of them, however the full screen popup that you get on boot very occasionally still appears. Overall I think this is a change for the better, I just need to get a replacement digitizer for the screen (or most likely the whole screen assembly) as touch or the pen no longer functions due to a crack across the screen. The crack on the screen is why I switched to the ThinkPad(s) in the first place.