SixFeetOver version 4.0

Rackspace

When Rackspace, one of the largest web hosts around, goes down, everybody notices.  No seriously - everybody.

Bing Fail

I tried a bing search just recently in Chrome. It rendered like this. Looks like MS couldn't be bothered to test out their CSS in a standards-compliant browser - at least the one from their most hated rival.

That was a close one…

I created a back up of all my old posts before switching servers, only to discover that the backup went bad when I went to import them all in my new WordPress installation.  Thankfully I was able to switch the nameservers back to my old host and log back in to that to recover my posts - hence them being here now.

New site, new host

Well, I've finally moved my hosting from Worldpath to this* web host and I'm trying to get WordPress set up. I found a decent them (ProudBlack) but I'd like to create my own theme.  One more thing for the projects list!  I also seem to have stupidly failed when I backed up all my old blog posts, so I'm not sure if I can get those back...I may be able to figure something out though.

I also plan to be setting Alice up with her own blog soon.  For now - bed time.

Twitter and Flickr

I've finally gotten around to getting a Twitter and a Flickr account.  See: http://www.twitter.com/6feetoverandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jafraser/

Oh

I have a website?

It may not seem that way

...but I've been working on the backend of this site a good bit. You can register for updates and the ability to post comments right away. Other than that, I'm just tweaking away to make things better.

For now, I'm off to a party.

Back at it

After my long leave of absense.

This semester has kicked off with a three day weekend, so I've decided to take advantage of it and get some semblence of a web site up. To my embarrassment, I will be using an only slightly customized theme that I downloaded - this site is not 100% of my own making. I've always taken some pride in having a personal site build from the ground up and coding by me, but that will have to wait for another three day weekend, or perhaps I'll edit it here and there during the semester - but no promises.

I've also switched from Movable Type to WordPress. Movable Type kept breaking on me (hence the other site dying), and was slow due to being written in Perl. WordPress is written in php and uses a mySQL database, both highly attractive features. I'm impressed with it so far.

I'm happy to have a site back. I've had only a few persistant appeals for its resurrection, so I've no idea how long it will take people to start visiting again, but oh well. I've felt the itch recently to write. My roommate Jared has been a good influence on me in that regard this year - when he has some thoughts on a subject, he writes them down. I need to do the same, otherwise my thoughts are evanescent and never go anywhere. I'm certainly not going to promise super-frequent updates, but it's at least safe to say "I'm back!"

Old entries can be found, for now, at http://www.sixfeetover.org/archives.php.