Aquila Online

6 years later

// September 12th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Blog Stuff, Food, Interesting

Six years and two days ago, on 10 September 2004, this blog was started. Happy birthday blog, good times indeed.

Sounds of silence

// August 1st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Blog Stuff

Hello blog, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a visitor softly clicking
Left a comment while I was sleeping
And the comment that was planted
Still rings out “Why the sound of silence?”

With respect to the original ‘The Sounds of Silence’ by Simon and Garfunkel.

5 years of blogging

// September 18th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Blog Stuff, General

Just a quick mental note to say that I’ve been blogging for just over 5 years now. The Aquila Online blog kicked off on 10 September 2004 (Yes, yes I know. I missed my own blog-birthday) and is still going. These things still amaze me.

So without much Pomp and Circumstance – Happy birthday blog.

The emperor’s new clothes

// March 5th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // Blog Stuff

Well hello there. This post is long overdue. After much of a hiatus from blogging due to many, many boring and not so boring factors (lets’ not get into the detail here – that’s a post for another day), I’m happy to announce that I’m back. For those of you still subscribed to the RSS feed, my deepest gratitude for holding on. Those of you who have not yet subscribed, perhaps now’s the time to do so.

“Why?”, I might hear you ask. To be honest, I’m not sure. I could make promises to blog every day. To share my personal life and the things I find interesting or post some of my own images, but we all know that resolutions go out the window once we hit work deadlines and other personal commitments. What I can say though is that we live in interesting times and these need to be documented. And what better place than right here on this blog?

For a long time I’ve been nudging, winking and searching for a new theme for AquilaOnline. To me the site was getting a bit stale, clearly evidenced by the lack of posts, visitors and comments. Many weekends, delicious tags, downloads, sandbox tests ensued to get that perfect theme.

I wanted something a bit grungy, textured, yet clean and pleasing on the eye. Apart from creating my own, I finally settled on one that works for me. It might still be refined somewhat over the next few days, but for now I’m happy.

I guess it’s somewhat like the story of the Emperor’s new clothes. Even with or without a new theme to the blog, the bottom line is that I’ll still be baring my thoughts, ideas, interests and stories to you, the reader. (Hopefully you won’t find it pretentious in any way).

PS: Let me know what you think of the new design and features, which is quite a departure from the previous one.