After being on hiatus for more than six months, I'm back in the blogging world.

For those who don't know, I had an incredibly difficult time dealing with my previous web hosting service, Siteflip.com. They terminated my service aburptly because of a huge misunderstanding with another web site I created for someone at school.

After some investigation, these characters at Siteflip were in the business of deception and I have learned my lesson to not just go for affordable web hosting services.

Now that it's all behind me, I'm looking forward to leap to a new page in my blogging, with a new web hosting service, a new subdomain and a new name, Green Beam City.

The name 'Green Beam City' actually originated from a paper I wrote in my Sustainable Cities course. Green Beam City was a vision I developed that attempted to shed some light on how I'd like cities to be shaped in the future. It was not a particularly a groundbreaking paper, and it was certainly not out-of-this-world, but I really enjoyed writing it.

I chose this name because I think it's neat, symbolic, and makes for better marketing-- as the string "Green Beam City" was very unique on Google Search.

You will notice that I have uploaded most of the blog entries from the days of Mattism. The most recent entries and comments have disappeared because those were not backed up prior to the termination of my previous web hosting account. As for the recovered entries, the images that were associated with the entries were unfortunately not backed up. Consequently, you will find dozens of broken image links.

Also, there were many entries that I was not necessarily proud of, so took the time to "sanitize" some of my previous entries from Mattism.

I tried to continue to link to my previous RSS feed links, but I seem to be unsuccessful. Sorry for creating work those loyal readers.

Green Beam City is a working progress, but I look forward to being further distracted once again!