{"id":4,"date":"2007-12-10T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T05:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-12-22T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T20:12:01","slug":"a-new-home-and-a-new-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"A New Home and A New Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merindabrayfield.com\/\" title=\"Merinda's Site\" target=\"_blank\">Merinda<\/a> hooked me up with a discount to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?375547\" target=\"_blank\">Dreamhost<\/a> to begin my professional musings and maybe some personal works. I thank her for her kindness and hope that my viewers will grow with time.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I would like to say a friendly hello to any potential viewers stopping by to see my site. I plan to focus serious articles on things like technology reviews to be on Linux distros, video games, mobile phones. Every now and then, there may be a personal post or rant from my life and even goof off a bit. This site will also be home to my &#8220;logs&#8221; of the day for things like my &#8220;fitness diary&#8221; or any sort of trials (i.e. 1 month with random tech item, etc).<\/p>\n<p>For newcomers of my blog&#8230; Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Zero and I am just an enthusiast about life, technology, cars, and open source software. My passions are games, medicine, driving, computer &amp; electronic modifications, and wine tasting. I am quite approachable and kind to all walks of life as experiences can open up the mind. I am a very passionate individual who seeks to learn as much as I can by immersion. For the curious, here&#8217;s what my &#8220;gear&#8221; as of today is comprised of&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dell XPS m140 laptop &#8211; powered by Ubuntu Linux<\/li>\n<li>Smartphone: Sony Ericsson P990i with a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (World Edition, unlocked)<\/li>\n<li>Beater Phone:  Sony Ericsson W300i (AT&amp;T branded but unlocked)<\/li>\n<li>Sony PSP Slim (PSP-2001) in Piano Black with a 512mb Memory Stick Pro Duo<\/li>\n<li>Nintendo DS lite in Onyx<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have decided to host privately due to the restrictive nature of Vox imposing on the freedoms of my friends and I feel this would hinder the growth of the blog to the general public. Unfortunately, WordPress developers have not yet found a way to import posts from Vox over&#8230; With over 100 entries, that could be tedious to do by hand. Until a solution can be found, I will just hot-link any curious readers to my previous blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/zeroxr.vox.com\/\" title=\"The old blog\" target=\"_blank\">My Old Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to drop a line and say hello if you wish!<\/p>\n<p>-Zero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Merinda hooked me up with a discount to Dreamhost to begin my professional musings and maybe some personal works. I thank her for her kindness and hope that my viewers will grow with time. As for me, I would like to say a friendly hello to any potential viewers stopping by to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A New Home and A New Haven<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,36],"tags":[5,6,586,7],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-site-news","tag-announcement","tag-greeting","tag-personal","tag-welcome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVBT-4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}