So I decided to change my website's hosting plan a few days ago. As a result you've probably been seeing some strange error messages in the last couple of days. While nothing has change from the design point of view, the backend performance will be better what with Dreamhosts' many features. (Thanks away for the recommendation. If anyone is thinking about making the switch to them let me know and I can show you how.)
Part of the delay was just figuring out the different configuration files, database changes, shell commands, etc. I'm sure away had an easier time migrating to them but I had a frustrating time getting it to work. And now it's finally up and running again. Yay!
Check it out and let me know if there is anything strange on the site. Is it faster or slower? Bleh...
After some email exchanges and reading of various hosting sites, I finally figured out a place to call "home". My new place will be hosted by the "generous" folks at Dreamhost.
After emailing away and getting his "i like" comment as well as a referral link, I went ahead and signed up earlier today. The whole process took about 30 mins or so (since I have some time on my hand at work.) Of course the most time consuming part of it is leaving verio, my old hosting place.
What a funny coincidence that I get a new host and away get this (referral) as a present. =)
Happy Birthday away! (Of course you guys all knew that!)
So if you are experiencing problem accessing this site in the next 2-3 days please be patient while I configure the new server and tying up lose ends at my old host. Thanks for your patient.
Sometimes rather than thinking of something to write I like to just rummage around the various blog sites to see what everyone else is writing. Sometimes I like to leave comments on these sites. An idea occurred to me—and folks bare in mind I haven't really thought through these things—someone could write a way to aggregate the "most recent comments" that we leave after reading wuboy, drewboy, kat15812, jeeyoungi, clieu, jimmyjam206, laurenine , mdw, and someone I really really like site.
Think of bread crumbs trail in Hansel and Gretel. A comment here, a comment there, some more at blahblahblah...there ought to be a way to sweep up all those crumbs into a "container"—most recent comments by so-and-so. A blogs comment thread if you will.
More new blogging softwares promise to keep your publishing needs healthy. And anyway I got this idea from away after his successful crossposting from his WP blog to Xanga and it made me think about those possibilities. I suppose I could duplicate my typing but a quick search led me to GRX's very own ryu52's Xanga blog mirror script.
My only concern is that the freakin' RSS feeds. I usually post in the past in Moveabletype in order NOT update the feeds to get the proper "content/design" look-and-feel.
Of course someone else suggested "why folks just don't join xanga." I actually like Xanga's GRX community. It's nice too to get those nice eProps. But in defending MT I guess at the moment I have some time on my hand to play around with the design, come up with categories as well as multiple sites (community and journal) AND snoop around for gee-whiz plugins. (Those darn tagclouds on these flickr, technorati, del.icio.us sites are well delicious looking albeit it may not make my blogging site any better or simpler to use.)
Having say that lets see if this works. Otherwise grrr...
I'm desperate for content. I remembered back in days where they touted "content is king".
Looking at my stats recently my reader-ship has been flagging. Well it comes and goes in cycles but the general trend (yes I did minored in Economics) looks downward. What to do?
Behind every man stands his woman. So I approached Sands and we traded some ideas. These are really rather randomn of sort...
- User Interface (information flow, user interaction)
- Layout (grid system, columns, navigation structures, accessibility)
- Graphic (visual, color, brandings)
- Typography (types/fonts, style rules)
We live in a culture that is one-up all the time. One-upmanship leads to corporations like Enron, Worldcom and ImClone. On a smaller scale one-upmanship leads to unhealthy interest in material goods (keeping up with the Joneses), backstabbing at the office, and the level of competitiveness in sports.
Take our GrX Hoops league. We Christians can be "oh so civilized" off the court, but get us on the court and it's a different story. Basic Christians concept such as mercy doesn't really apply when the final score tallied 85 to 28. On our team, one of the most competitive guy is our home church's Pastor Andy.
