So I would like to let you know that you should not be surprise if the next few days you see oddities, errors, and alike.

I know that this blog seems dead, but I did not forgot about it. I hope to get new material to post soon.

You can find more info on the PGP key page.

Now, this yet another hiatus forced me to think what I should do with this web site. Is it worth to keep trying even if I keep ending up in hiatus? Should I close it, accepting my inability to update it daily? Well … no … to both questions.

Upon asking my self the above questions I reviewed both my original intentions and the eventual projects I have attempted to launch on this site: at the beginning (when I originally opened my account on wordpress.com) the purpose was to have some space where to host some guide about computers (I started with a series of Knights of the Old Republic’s Hints even if that guide was already some years old).

Than I realized that, since I would have seldomly wrote computer guides, the site would have often been gone for some time without updates; that leaded me to start reporting any tech news I found interesting. As I started I was compelled to report at least 3-4 news a day.

While writing news, I decided to start offering two additional services: the first was to have posts dedicated to the specifications of any tech gadget, like iPods, BlackBerry, Palm’s smartphones; the second service is to offers videos about gadgets and eventually computers.

Surely the site was building content in matter of days, but that effort leaded me to another problem: time management; since the site wasn’t born to be an economical venture I could have lived on, I was still bound to my day job, but that meant I have limited time to promptly keep the news flow (and as you know, prompt time is critical on the news market, especially on Internet; if your site cannot offer the news in a timely fashion, readers will keep themself updated on other fronts and then they have no reason to come back re-reading something on your web site).

For months I keept trying, hoping to find some balance between the promptness nature of the news and my limited time available, but I always ended up to either involutarly go to hiatus, like the one at the end of the last year or this recent one, or I resorted to publish brief news about software updates filled with mere changelogs.

And now here I am wondering what to do. My intentions? I don’t want to give up on Silicon Gadget: I have decided that from now on the main focus of this web site will be back on guides. The “news” segment is not totally scratched away, but definitively you will not going to see the usual mini-posts I have produced so far; instead of writing brief news for anything interesting on the IT market, I will SELDOMLY write editorials on topics that are really breaking news.

That are my intentions, but wait a second … you are the readers! That means that it is you who read my posts! That means you are the judges of this site! What do you think?

I have not fortgotten you even if I have made no new posts in months. On the last post I claimed that I would have spent “few days” on trying the new expansion of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King; well, as you may guess it is taking me more the few days, but I will be back soon with a review (and many more posts about computers and gadgets).

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The problem has been caused by an attempted-but-failed change to the database. Fortunately it has not been difficult to resolve even if the sleep-time and the real-work time slowed down the resolution up until now.

If you posted a comment little earlier, it may have been lost due to the database restore and you have to post it again.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

The link you see on the right sidebar, the one you are using now, is serving you all the post I make, either for guides, computer news, and gadget news. Now with the new links that I activated if you can choose to track only the topics you are interested in.

To activate them you have to visit the “RSS Feeds” page and activate the feed you are interested in.

Actually there are just few hot topics available for the moment; if you are interested on some topic that has not a dedicated feed, let me know by leaving a comment and I will activate it.