I haven’t blogged in a while. So here’s a quick blog post—not really much of an opinion type entry but probably more of a quick overview of what’s going on.

Where do my priorities lie right now? More specifically, where do I think my priorities should lie? In other words, I don’t follow this strictly, but maybe I should… Well, it’s really some mix of what I should follow and what I do follow. Anyway, without further ado, let’s organize this in tiers in which, within a tier, priorities are dynamically close to equal (relative to items in other tiers).

top tier

• God/prayer (I definitely need to improve here…)
• family
• friends
• schoolwork

high tier

• music (including piano)
• getting distracted philosophizing (more like simply collecting my thoughts and/or thinking about metaphysics, contemplating my existence, and so on)

third tier

• Rice Go club
• Rice Thresher

fourth tier

• other club activities (Hong Kong Student Association, Rice Taiwanese Association, etc.)
• StarCraft (with the whole Collegiate Starleague thing going on)
• swimming
• playing Go for fun, improving myself, and sharpening my mind

bottom tier (still priorities nonetheless)

• taking the time to explore interests related to some goals in life (i.e. cyber law, Lessig)
• clearing up my reading list (extremely slow progress at the moment)
• redesigning this blog (creating Pax Asiana v4) and fixing technical problems
• blogging (oops)

Yeah, so blogging is a priority of some sort at least. I’ve just scarcely found the proper combination of inspiration, time, and energy recently. I’ve (almost) always believed that blogging should be done whenever one feels like it, but I really should push myself to blog more. Sorry about that.

Another thing to notice is that Super Smash Bros. Brawl is not listed as a priority. I do it in between different things (although not so much recently) to relieve some stress, but it’s not something I take seriously; it’s really, really just for fun.

One final thing—I’d definitely appreciate prayer for my family. Thanks.

Greetings from Hualien, Taiwan, where I’m teaching English to kids! I hadn’t been to Taiwan in eleven years or so.

It’s been pretty good so far. I’ve made some good friends as well as seen an old friend. And, actually, it could be a little better, but it’s still awesome nonetheless.

Farewell, Bluehost. I’ve moved this blog (and macroz.net) over to Hostgator now. At Bluehost occasionally I would get an “exceeds CPU quota” error, taking down the whole hosting account for a little bit after trying to do some fairly normal stuff. You can see this guy’s rant/article for more info.

The transition has seemed pretty painless. Hostgator seems great, except for the connection timeouts I get sometimes when trying to SCP or SSH. It’s manageable though. And actually, rendering time for the WordPress PHP pages seem faster than at Bluehost (with or without caching). This is a really good thing.

I still need to make sure I’m not missing everything before the bluehost account expires. But in any case, I promise more interesting content will be coming here this week. Seriously!