Una verdad simulada

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While thinking for a name for this blog, I thought of using “A Simulated Truth.” One, because I am a big Stephen Colbert fan, the same guy who popularized the term truthiness. Second, because I write about the perception of “truth” I glean after reading news reports and opinion pieces, a truth that actually passes through layers of filters. Finally, because my research involves building models and performing simulations.

“Una verdad simulada” was the term obtained using Google to translate from English to Spanish.

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This blog is back in its third avatar. This is perhaps the tenth time I am writing a “I am back” post. But this time, its slightly different.

Sometime last July or August, my previous host (mesopia.com, which got bought by webhostplus.com) claimed that their servers got hacked into and all their data was lost. I had a back-up on my laptop. Unfortunately, that backup was lost a month earlier when my harddisk crashed. So, I had no choice but to start afresh.

I contacted my web hosts, webhostplus.com, informing them that they could go ahead and restore my account if they could not retrieve the lost data. I didn’t hear from them for 5 to 6 weeks. Thats when I decided to take my business elsewhere. I signed up with http://www.godaddy.com and requested for the transfer of my previous domain kaisare.net to my new host. Unfortunately, my requests went unanswered for a while. So, I contacted the registrars of my domain, http://enom.com. They informed me that I wasn’t the only one facing this problem, it looked like a lot of customers had a similar problem. Unfortunately, since my previous hosting company was still in business, they were unable — legally — to transfer the domain to my name. That is how I landed with a new domain, http://kaisare.org/

Thanks to Google cache, I will try to restore some of the more popular posts from my previous blog. While I will try to regularly update my blog, only time will tell whether I actually manage to fullfil my intensions.  

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